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While in the Flint Hills yesterday, I spotted this great abandoned elevator in the small town of Allen in Lyon County. I headed to the south end of town (it didn't take long as Main Street consists of only 3 blocks) as I wanted to check out the Flint Hills Nature Trail which I knew ran through here. I was delighted to see this old elevator right along the trail. See tags for processing steps.
The Flint Hills Nature Trail is the longest rail-trail in the State of Kansas and the seventh longest in the United States. The length is 117 miles as it passes through five counties in east-central Kansas. The trail which generally follows the Santa Fe National Historic Trail begins in Osawatomie in Miami County and travels westward to Council Grove in Morris County. Built on an old railroad corridor (originally developed in the late 1880s as the Council Grove, Osage City & Ottawa Railway and which later became the Missouri Pacific Railroad), the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy acquired the corridor in 1995 following the discontinuance of railway service on the line in the 1980s. Ownership of the trail was transferred to the Kanza Rail-Trails Conservancy at a later date. It is the longest privately managed rail-trail in the United States.
Every single detail is beautiful in this Calatrava design. This elevator connects the platform to the top level and the underground passage.
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The village of Dorothy, which never grew beyond 100 residents, is considered one of Alberta’s classic pioneer communities, serving as a popular social centre in the first half of the 20th century in the heart of the province’s famed Badlands Country. Dorothy is located about 15 miles southeast of Drumheller in a flat valley bottom. A few years after the turn of the 20th century, Percy McBeath, a store keeper living in the immediate area, applied to have a post office and wanted to name the site Percyville. However, the district post office inspector decided instead to name the site Dorothy, after the daughter of Jack Wilson, an early rancher who first arrived in the area in 1900. The Dorothy post office officially opened in 1908. The hamlet grew modestly and enjoyed its greatest prosperity in the late 1920s, shortly after a railway line was built through the area. At one time the village had three elevators, the Alberta Wheat Pool, the Alberta Pacific and the United Grain Growers, a grocery store, a butcher shop, pool room, telephone office, restaurant and a machine agency. A school was opened in 1937 and lasted in the hamlet until 1960. The village also supported two churches — a United Church from 1932 to 1961 and a Roman Catholic church from 1944 to 1967. The two churches were considered the focal point for the entire region’s important social events. They still stand today, but are gradually being withered away by time and the elements. Less than a dozen residents live in the hamlet today. One grain elevator, long closed down, still evades being torn down. A community hall still serves residents of the area. For visitors, there is also a small museum to inspect pieces of the once vibrant lifestyle of this unique part of Alberta. For more information on Dorothy, the curious can also go to Drumheller’s public library and browse through Hazel B. Roen’s book of the area, — The Grass Roots of Dorothy 1895-1970. The 354-page book, published in 1971, offers a touching portrait of the Dorothy region and its people.
Submitted by Johnnie Bachusky.
(From www.ghosttowns.com/canada/alberta/dorothy.htm)
There are barely a hundred wooden grain elevators left in Alberta. Once they were ubiquitous, but now they are so rare that you can drive all day and never see one. The tracks that this elevator served are long gone, as is most of the surrounding village. You can still see the relatively lush pasture, with a line of cottonwoods marking the river, and behind them the eroded coulees topped by flat prairie.
This High Dynamic Range image was tone-mapped from three bracketed hand-held photographs with Photomatix, processed with Colour Efex, then touched up in Aperture.
I was very pleased by the idea of building a lift for the sake of going up outside, rather than within a building.
Elevator of the Arch of Neutrality, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
The three-legged arch, which is known locally as "The Tripod", is 75 metres (246 ft) tall and was built in 1998 on the orders of Turkmenistan's President Saparmurat Niyazov to commemorate the country's official position of neutrality. It cost $12 million to construct. The monument was topped by a 12-metre (39 ft) tall gold-plated statue of Niyazov which rotated to always face the sun.
Most of the day's photos were taken during our daily walk to the post office. We walked a bit later than usual, so I was able to take advantage of the late-afternoon light.
Thirty years ago this was a functioning grain elevator and our town would regularly fill with farmers' vehicles to buy seed and deliver grain. I miss those days, sometimes.
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This photograph is an outtake from my 2021 photo-a-day project, 365^4.
Number of project photos taken: 31
Title of folder: Spider Webs-Around Town
Other photos taken on 12/13/2021: none
We became friends with this giantess, who was in all the elevators at the Blue Horizon Hotel, in Vancouver, British Columbia.
This elevator is still used even though it was sold off by the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. It appears the rail siding is still intact, however I'm not sure if they still load cars from there or not. CN did dump a car on the siding, however it might have tripped the hotbox further to the west and this was the convenient place to drop it off.
A naked image for men stands at two places of entrances of the elevator hall. Let him wear underwear. Please be cautious not to be found by a guard.
On April 21, 2013 with Hatsudai opera tower.
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エレベーターホールの2箇所の入り口に裸の男性像が立っています。 だれか警備員に見つからないようにパンツを履かせてください。
2013年4月21日、初台オペラタワーにて。
What is it about grain elevators (and silos) that is so appealing? This one is in Bozeman Montana just outside the "downtown" proper, harking back to a more rural era. I find these structures monuments to the men and women who made this country. I treat them with reverence, much as I do any cathedral.
Location: Bozeman, Montana
Camera, Linhof Technikardan
Film: Kodak ReadyLoad
Lens: 75mm
Sizes:
18"x27" image on 24"x33" sheet, edition of 40
24"x36" image on 30"x42" sheet, edition of 30
30"x45" image on 36"x51" sheet, edition of 20
36"x54" image on 42"x60" sheet, edition of 10
This print is also available in a signed open edition using pigment ink on archival matte paper. Size is 8"x12" image on 14"x18" sheet. Email me at michael@haywood-sullivan.com for more information being sure to mention the name of the photograph.
I had never seen a grain elevator in my life, until I took my first train trip to Western Canada many years ago. As we crossed Manitoba and Saskatchewan, the visions of grain elevators approaching against the backdrop of canola fields and those fabulous prairie skies were very powerful.
Then I learned that there were thousands of them in Saskatchewan only, in the 1930s, but today only a few hundred remain, very few still being used, most of them abandoned, weather beaten, on the verge of demolition.
To me, grain elevators are the architectural equivalents of European medieval castles, or Dutch wind mills (a little exaggeration here, maybe?). They've captured my imagination like no other buildings in North America have (lighthouses and barns come to my mind too, I love them as well). These are the photographs I took in August 2013.
This is not an elevator in the way we think of them today. This "elevator" is an elevator in that it elevates (or did elevate) grain from one level to the other. It is the only building left from this farm site which is on the edge of our valley pasture.
Although I added this to the vanished beauty and rural decay pools, I am planning on putting a new roof on this building to prevent it from eventually falling down. I'm just waiting on the roofing guys to come and do it.
This grain elevator (along with its elevator house) is the only remnant of the small town of Mentmore, Manitoba. It was built in 1928 and is still being used to store grains, even if the railroad tracks have been gone for 35 years.
For some historical detail on Mentmore, visit this: www.ebrandon.ca/messagethread.aspx?message_id=98952&c...
Work on the 2nd elevator continues. It was a bad time to have 1 of the 2 elevators out of service for several months. It is not comfortable for me to ride in a crowded elevator during a pandemic! The Fox Plaza management says that extra employees have been hired to work 12 hours a day to expedite the replacement of the old motors.