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Maybe this questions has been answered before? Being Racine, Wisconsin was on Lake Michigan did Case tractors get shipped on Freighters or barges to various ports on the Great Lakes? Would be a good way to distribute, I think. Especially getting tractors into Michigan, were there seems to be a fair number of the older Case?s.
Jim
 
My dad told me that our local dealer (Newton Implement) would get loads in by rail car when he was young. I would have imagined that changed over time with interstate systems being build across America.
 
Others may be able to answer that question.I worked at a (feedmill,hardware store) that had a main rail track passing right by it.I got to see case tractors from early 770_2670 to the red color
Models pass by. Some times as many as 20 to 30 rail cars full.Now I wish I would of taken pictures.Once I got to check out a large CnW steam engine they had restored and moving it to St. Paul as it stopped and used a fire hydrant to fill up
 
I remember seeing rail cars in town and 30 series tractors on them for my Dad. I remember one car with I think was 3 "1030"s, after their intro, but I do remember Dad not caring for tractors coming in on the rail, they didn't seem to care for the business
 
During my early RR career I worked a local at Moline, IL that switched The IHC tractor and combine plants as well as JD combine, plow planter works. All switching was 3rd shift. It was not uncommon at shifts end to pull into Barstow yard (small 6 track yard) with a 100 cars of tractors, combines, plows and planters every morning. This would have been late 1960s thru early 1970s.
 
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