STANDING GRAIN ELEVATORS

Here's my grain elevators, I still need to build the "Big One".

Very nice!

There has to be birds or pidgeons populating the place don't it?

CBS072:  Nice...are those a Pure and a Standard or AMOCO gas stations across

from each other in the distance?  Looks like another elevator might be back in the

far distance beyond those?  My "big" one has been sitting half done for about two

years now, waiting for a picture of the back of it...it was on the DT&I at Jeffersonville, Ohio, with an unusual raised "covered bridge" unloading ramp at the front. A rustic,

operational,  and model material feed mill still sits across from its site. The DT&I also had a huge elevator farther north that looms in a station photo but I can't find a better picture to model from.

I recall a elevator about an hour or so southwest of Jonesboro on the UP/MP Line. That one was a monster Silo and the entire town is built around and to serve it and the people that worked it. It was not as large as the port exports or the Prairie ones... but it was right there by the road with a few rail cars inside the middle between the towers.

There is another down the line towards little rock that gets switched every day.

Lee....the Riceland elevators in Jonesboro are quite large too!!  Very impressive site coming in on the highway from the west....almost looks like Jonesboro has a "skyline"....

Alan

Here are a few updated pictures of my elevator complex....just recently added some detail including some lettering on the sides since my railroad is named the "Twin Lakes Central".

Alan

That is a place for switching grain and what ever else. Do you have any kind of operations?

One book I picked up at York last trip was Kalmbach's "Industries along the Tracks",

which addresses railroad operations around grain elevators and flour mills, as well

as bulk oil plants, meat packing and produce in reefers, livestock handling, coal mining, and auto plants.  It covers early grain doors in boxcars to the modern covered hoppers, and elevators, early and modern. 

With regard to auto plants, I want to see somebody model River Rouge or Highland Park!

Mines a smaller local feed/grain supply serving the local farmers. It is totally scratchbuilt to a freelance design.

Bob

Veru Nice job on all the silos!

Our Silo complex is still a work in progress.

Really nice work, Flanger

This is the grain elevator I'm going to model. It elevates the grain thru the tube and out the other end in a trickle.
David

Colordohiraile the "station on the left in the picture is a A&W drivein. The Amoco station on right is a gas station. The Amoco sign are a real Amoco hard hat decals(worked 30 years for Amoco Production Co). Worked on a oil and gas wells.  The elevator in the back of the picture is a cement plant, the silos are for cement storage. The "Big One" will be along a wall, I would like to have 2 tracks serving the elavotor but the area I have is only 1 foot by 6 or 7 foot. I may only build one row of silos so to have room for 2 tracks.

Here's a grain elevator I made in 1 1/2 inch scale for the live steam park.  The last pix is of one I made for the o scale club.  Russ

Some smaller Elevators I have come across

ChiloquinRuss:  That live steam one, shown on the trailer next to its prototype, and then in the park is fantastic!  As are some of the other real ones in photos, that are model material.  Glad I am not the only one who likes these structures.  There is no way I will have room on the layout for most of the ones I've built.  That MTH "Granary"

which I see in some of these photos....when I find one, maybe in a junk box at a show, I will kitbash it into a water mill, which to me it most resembles.  I do like that one photo of the real elevator with the sagging outside braced wooden bin next to it.