Combine City

For people who travel up and down I-40 west of Amarillo, you have probably seen or heard of the Cadillac Ranch. A gentleman named Stanley Marsh, III planted several Cadillac cars nose down in the middle of an old wheat field when the road was the old Route 66. This free attraction always draws crowds, complete with spray paint cans in hand. It is a pretty awesome sight.


It is good to know, however, that there is one of these type places for the agriculture in us all! On FM (Farm-to-Market for the non-rural people) 1151 or also known as the Old Claude Highway, a farmer had constructed what he calls Combine City. I pass by this Combine City on the way home to Childress every time I leave Canyon, but have never stopped. This time I did so I could take pictures! It is on a corner lot of a field separated from the road with a bar ditch and a rusty barbed wire fence. It is pretty awesome and is what I consider, one of those hidden little treasures of the Texas backroads! So if you are ever on FM 1151, take the time to stop and enjoy this wonderful display of agricultural art!