Poseyville: John Deere Dealer

While driving North through Poseyville, I passed a storage unit lot. It also had John Deere equipment so I stopped for some overview pictures.

Of particular interest was the two tracked tractors and the fertilizer applicator.

I took a picture of the rear of the tracked tractor because I noticed the electrical connections on top of the 5 hydraulic circuit connections. I had read in a brochure about the implements "remembering" their settings such as drill depth. That implies the implement has a computer and there is a way to connect that computer to the tractor's power and the tractor's computer. I was wondering how that connection was done.

Out by Interstate 64 was the dealer's facility. I could tell it was a big dealer because it had a receptionist. When I asked for permission to take pictures, she suggested that I check with Larry in the service manager office. He was behind glass doors and on the phone. I waited a while in the shop for him to get off the phone.
There was a tractor that was taken apart just in front of the rear wheels. But since I did not have permission, I did not take a picture of it. But I did take a picture of the seat of a chair at the bench next to me because of the history of logos. I took the picture from an angle to get the glare of the light off the logos.


Since I have plenty of pictures of John Deere equipment from other dealers, I gave up waiting and took just overview pictures from off their property.







Along IN-68:

The southeast corner along IN-68:

The north side from a parking lot across the side street:

From the parking lot of the business that is south of the dealer:

Note that most of the farmers in this area seem to be buying 12-row combine headers.

I find it interesting that the tractors with tracks are parked offsite rather than close to the dealers sales office because this is the first John Deere dealer I have seen that has them in stock. I would think he would want to showcase them.

Poseyville: New Holland/AGCO Dealer

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The dealer on the south side of Poseyville has about every brand except John Deere and CaseIH.

I noticed that equipment is shipped in pieces and that the dealer has to do final assembly. The dealer I talked to mentioned that they have an overhead crane in their shop to help with the assembly. Note the vertical gray bars holding the folding wings on top of the base units. The unit on the right has just one wing and folds in half. The wider unit on the left has a wing on each side that folds up.

The truck also carries a bunch of miscellaneous parts.

I was reminded that AGCO acquired the Massey-Ferguson brand and New Holland acquired the Ford and Versatile brands.

The Ford is in for repairs. It is not only used to mow grass, the PTO (Power Take Off) makes it useful as a portable engine for chores such as powering a grain elevator. To the right is an example of an older, smaller tractor being used as a portable engine. Note that the building with a square copula on top is a corn crib.

This dealer is mainly an implement dealer. It had only one new tractor on the lot. Fortunately the side with the diesel exhaust treatment equipment was the sunny side.

The dealer pointed out to me that the planter in their shop planted two rows close together so that they can both can be harvested by a regular corn head. That explains why there were two air-seed-delivery hoses per position in the planter.










He handed me a brochure for the Great Plains Yield-Pro Planters. The brochure indicates that the planter is 60-feet wide.

If you wanted hay bailing equipment, this was the dealer you went to. They had a square bailer, two small round bailers and a large round bailer. And they had three 3-point hitch mounted mowers.









The Great Plains seed drill had a new design for road transport -- the wings folded forward. I include a close-up of one of the fold joints.









They had multiple brands of tillage equipment. I'll use the detailed pictures in other posts. I'll include just an overview of the equipment here. The round shop building helps oriented the location of the pictures.

I asked the dealer about ARGO when I meant to say AGCO. It turns out ARGO is a company, and he mentioned that they had one of their amphibious ATVs in the shop. I asked if he would escort me into the shop so that I could take a picture. He did. Then I realized my mistake concerning AGCO. He pointed out that they had a Gleaner combine in the shop. I then remembered that Gleaner is the "G" in AGCO.

Posseyville, IN

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Poseyville, IN, is a very small detour on my way home, so I took that way because according to the Evansville phone book, it has 3 of the 4 tractor dealers in the area. I spent over 2 hours in the town because of the three dealers and because I discovered two abandoned railroad right-of-ways.

In the corner of the cemetery where IN-68 turns East on the south side of town is a war memorial.

And some close ups of the guns.

In contrast to "techonology towns" that have mostly fancy 1800s buildings. This town has buildings from many different decades and the 1800s buildings are rather plain.

The Fifth Third Bank building on the right below has two dates in the masonry -- 1884 and 1924. The tops of the Italianate architecture buildings have rectangle holes instead of a cornice. At first I thought they removed the cornices. Then I decided that the builder just built less ornate buildings. That would explain the simple round arches for the windows as well.

This other 1800s building not only illustrates the lack of a cornice and fancy window arches that normally characterize Italianate architecture, it has the "stars" on the side that terminate metal rods that help hold in the outer walls. The rods would go all the way through the ceiling/floor or roof.

Neponset, IL: Wooden Grain Elevator and CB&Q Depot

Elevator: (Satellite)

Depot: (Satellite)

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Andy Zukowski posted
CB&Q Railroad Depot and Elevator in Neponset, Illinois.(C)1910

A different colorization or printing.

Andy Zukowski posted
C. B. & Q. Railroad Depot & Elevator in Neponset, Illinois. 1907
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Trent Briggs posted three photos with the comment: "Neponset, Illinois."

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Dennis DeBruler commented on Andy's post
The depot was just west of 2nd Street. The grain elevator is extant, https://maps.app.goo.gl/3qJpowhDXrfQo1pf9.

 

1941 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

Neponset Historical Society posted
Neponset, IL. 1969.
Zach Malcolm shared

The grain elevator in Neponset, IL, has quite a bit of storage capacity, but Neponset does not have a downtown. It has just a gas station.

I have to admit that Google's street side view above is a better overview than any of my pictures. But my track side photo indicates that the BNSF/CB&Q siding is currently broken. However, it looks like they may be repairing it.

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The concrete foundation for a rectangular building also caught my attention. And this view indicates that the regular building to expand the capacity is quite long and wide.

I took a picture of this disk parked near the elevator for use in a posting I'm planning to write.

This Maintenance-of-Way equipment is more evidence that they are repairing the siding to the grain elevator. Close by someone had dumped a lot of old spikes and a tie-plate.

This is a view of the grain elevator complex from the west side where I saw the disc and MoW equipment.

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The checkerboard painting we see in the 1969 photo has disappeared. But we can still see the letters of the name PURINA.

While adding the depot information to these notes, I noticed that this elevator has an augur over the BNSF mainline. A structure over a Class I railroad is rare.

Street View, Jun 2023

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