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Russ-neia 
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Posted: 17 Aug 2010 at 4:58pm |
Does anyone have information about what happened to the former Harvey engine works?
How about a street address for some of the buildings and see if it shows up on Google maps?
I'm going to Chicago this weekend to visit a friend. Thought it might be interesting to drive to Harvey and look around, but not sure if that is a good idea as he says Harvey is pretty deep in poverty.
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Posted: 17 Aug 2010 at 7:52pm |
15443 Commercial Avenue, Harvey, IL I assembled a panorama photo several years ago when I was researching this. Here is a scaled down version: 
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Posted: 18 Aug 2010 at 8:25pm |
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DOES ANY ONE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE MOLDS USED TO CAST THE BLOCKS,CRANKS & HEADS?
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Posted: 18 Aug 2010 at 10:46pm |
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What is it now??
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Posted: 19 Aug 2010 at 6:04pm |
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The Harvy Engine Works machines and engine prints, equipment, etc. was supposedly sold to a company in Colorado ; they kept producing the engines under a different name , not ALLIS , but I believe they went bankrupt and dont know after that , I think Jerry from KS. provided that information on here once
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Posted: 23 Aug 2010 at 11:29am |
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Yes, what is on the proerty now and can Jerry provide the info on the engines again??
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Posted: 23 Aug 2010 at 12:06pm |
Isn't Harvey kinda on the south side? If it's where I think it is, that's not a good place to be in the daytime, let alone after dark. GM's training center is in Hinsdale and after class once I thought I'd go to the museum of science and history. It didn't register that I took a path straight through the ghetto. If you don't lay rubber the instant traffic lights turn green, they honk at you.
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Posted: 23 Aug 2010 at 12:14pm |
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Paste the address in the Google Maps window, then hit the Satellite view. Not much left but concrete...
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Posted: 09 Nov 2014 at 11:42am |
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I worked there 1965-1976 as a engine tester and night shift supervisor. Is the buildings still there?
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Posted: 09 Nov 2014 at 11:46am |
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Glad your here Ernie, bet that was a fun job testing engines!
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Posted: 09 Nov 2014 at 1:41pm |
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A number of years ago, I was sent to the Harvey works on my first trip as a truck driver. At that time, it was a tube and conduit manufacturer. "Allis-Chalmers" was still written on the water tower. I had wondered why the perimeter fence was actually concrete bunker silo type panels. I later found out that it was because stray bullets were enough of a problem, they needed to bullet-proof it. All I could think of was the old Jim Croce song about bad LeRoy Brown. He was from the south-side of Chicago.
I got my load of conduit, and it was after dark by the time I left. I knew that this country boy didn't belong there. I spent that night in Rockford.
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Posted: 09 Nov 2014 at 4:23pm |
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Yes it was a fun job. I have many stories of engine mishaps during my 10 years. I have pictures to post.
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Posted: 09 Nov 2014 at 4:32pm |
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Brian, how did you get this photo on here? Also it is not the photo of the old factory. Thanks,
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Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 8:48pm |
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Doug,I have current photo's of the Allis Chalmers factory in Harvey Il' I just don't know how to post the photo's on here. The buildings are still there.
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Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 9:02pm |
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Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 9:04pm |
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Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 9:05pm |
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Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 9:42pm |
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The Harvey engine factory now belongs to Sterling Lumber and is used as a timber may factory. My brother got to tour it last spring. They supply all of the access mats for our oil pipeline projects. The only thing left that resembled Allis Chalmers at that time was the water tower. It still said Allis Chalmers on it, and I have a picture somewhere of him standing in front of it. They told him they had plans of getting the water tower painted over the summer.
Maybe he will chime in with a little more info.
Andy
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Posted: 12 Nov 2014 at 1:15pm |
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It is indeed now owned by the Sterling Lumber Company and the produce all sorts of industrial wood products. Mostly, the timber swamp mats that are used on pipeline or power line projects that you might see.
I did in fact tour the plant this summer and rode through the entire place on a monster golf cart. It was raining that day and the roof leaked bad all over the place! There was absolutely no remains of anything Allis other that a couple of air compressors. I explained some of the history of the plant to the Sterling family while I sat down with them for lunch and they had heard, but were really unaware of the level of history this plant had carried. I told them that if they found anything Allis that they needed to call me!
On a side note, the Sterling family told me that the plant in fact is in both the Harvey and Phoenix city limits and when the were in negotiations to purchase that Harvey was giving them a bit of trouble. After the sale was completed they changed the address of the plant from Harvey to Phoenix since the Phoenix officials were great to deal with.
I do have the pic standing in front of the water tower somewhere. Maybe I should contact them and see if we could do "group buy" on the water tower?
Edited by roosky01 - 12 Nov 2014 at 2:56pm
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Posted: 12 Nov 2014 at 2:01pm |
 This is me testing a 2900 series diesel which had a high rpm of 2200. This would have been 1976
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Posted: 12 Nov 2014 at 2:06pm |
 Me setting the injection pump before running the beam load power curve.
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 Me running the power curve.
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Posted: 12 Nov 2014 at 2:11pm |
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Thanks for sharing the pictures! AWESOME
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Posted: 12 Nov 2014 at 5:38pm |
What happened to the large Batavia, IL warehouse? I remember the closing of the Bondurant, IA regional parts warehouse and everything being sent to Batavia and suppose to be better and faster for parts. My dealer was in Bondurant and driving 1/2 mile was much better than waiting for Batavia to ship it 350 miles. So much of AC history was destroyed by Deutz in their short time of ownership. IH had a lot of the same fate when Tenneco/Case took over.
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Posted: 12 Nov 2014 at 6:36pm |
Thanks for the photos and info ernie,much appreciated. 
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Posted: 12 Nov 2014 at 6:39pm |
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Thanks Ernie! Looks like some good times!
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Posted: 12 Nov 2014 at 6:49pm |
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I was the inspector in department 76 in 1976. You might remember my dad, around that time he was the test (dept 77) working the second shift. His nick name was "Big John". Did you mean D2800 and not D2900? Didn't see a turbo on it. All the same some great pictures and thanks for posting them. John Fiandaca
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