Moline Factory?

I was looking at train videos and ran across a short segment that may show the shipping area at the Moline factory. Thought some might enjoy it, some other good scenes in it as well. Molines at 6:08.
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I've seen that before. As a kid raised on a farm with Moline's, and a RR Engineer, that is an all around awesome vintage movie!
 
RR film footage looks like the MM tractor plant in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Lake street, just off of Hiawatha ave. The shipping yard was behind the assembly plant on the east side and started about where the Target, etc, mall /shopping center is now. A track that is still there to the north and curving east from the track along Hiawatha ave. I use to "ferry" M-s5's and MF 97 and G705's and G 706's back there when I worked there on final inspection.
 
Hi Cowpuncher and thanks, great to find someone who can identify these now gone locations. Always admired the Molines after seeing one run away with the sled, and be disqualified for going too fast (>6mph?) at a pull back in the '60s. As I recall, he pulled it all the way around a 3/8 mile dirt horse race track much to the consternation of the other competitors. Just smiled, loaded up, and left.
 

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