TOM - Technically speaking, JD Harvester is in EAST Moline, 1100 - 13th Ave is the offical addy. My F-i-L retired from there. Quite a place... I've been all around the outside of the place but never had the tour. Four MILLION square feet under roof, about twice the size of Farmall. I forget which show it was, "How It's Made" or something like that did ALL the JD plants incl Harvester, Horicon, think even Waterloo Tractor plant.
There was a HUGE flat concrete paved lot about a half mile to 3/4 mile due west, (towards Moline/Rock Island) down river of JD Harvester right on the river bank between 12th Ave EM and the river. That was Case/IH's East Moline plant. McLaughlin Body is the biggest place left between the old IH plt & Harvester. Keep going WEST, down river about four miles and you'll run right into the old Main Gate of Farmall. Hope all the green/yellow corn planters I saw sitting around there 3-4 months ago are gone.
Did the tour take you to "The Commons"?
Not sure I want to know HOW or WHY stake pockets on a CC cart came up on that trip....
Speaking of manufacturing plants, Article made the Chicago Tribune yesterday. Guy retired from IHC Melrose Engine plant after SIXTY YEARS of service, yes, 60 yrs, 720 MONTHS. He started there at age 18 in 1951. In 60 years he missed FIVE days of work total. Drove a fork truck the last 30-some years.