Old Allis-Chalmers Tractor Near the Grain Elevator in Ryder

Allis-Chalmers built tractors and farm equipment in Milwaukee from 1914 until the company's agricultural division was sold off in the 1980s, and its orange paint and badge lettering became a familiar sight across the Midwest. This model, with its exposed engine block and twin exhaust-style stacks, the mid-20th-century design common to the company's small grain-farm tractors. Ryder, North Dakota, sits in Ward County, an area built around grain farming since the early homestead era, and elevators like the one behind the tractor remain the local points where area farmers deliver wheat, barley, and canola for storage and rail shipment.

Taken July 2015