I'm looking for an HO scale John Deere 2020 in HO scale and can't seem to find anything but wanted to make sure I wasn't overlooking anything (like a a model offering that never had a model number on it but it was a 2020). 

Secondarily, an HO scale John Deere from the same late 60s/early 70s time period would be helpful. 

Tractors are out of my know-zone. So many catalogs and manufacturers don't put years on their construction, tractor and truck offerings. It's nice to see them put that info on cars and loco offerings now.

I would like to extend a personal invitation to all interested modelers to my 4 presentations/clinics at the National Model Railroad Association (NMRA) Convention being held in Portland, Oregon on Tues Aug 25 and repeated Thursday Aug 27 ( http://nmra2015.sbcrailway.ca/node/3232) on Scale Model Animation and prototype railroad cranes.

A few weeks ago I started looking for my Kadee coupler height guages. I've been puttering away on some structures but did a locomotive up and wanted to check the coupler height. I searched all the usual places where I THOUGHT I had stored them. I knew I had several. My father had one that is probably older than I am and when a friend in the hobby passed away I thought I remembered he had given me 2. For the life of me I couldn't find them. 

I model the Latta Subdivision of the Soo Line in southern Indiana in the early 1990s.  Seriously, the Soo Line served southern Indiana?  Yes, it actually did after it took over the Milwaukee.  During that time it had about a train a day of bridge traffic to the Norfolk Southern in Louisville, but its bread and butter was hauling coal from multiple loadouts up and down the line.  The Latta sub was isolated from the rest of the Soo Line since it used the ex C&EI from Terre Haute to Chicago and the ex Monon from Bedford to Louisville.