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The new Motive Rail company “Illinois Terminal Belt” pulling loads South through Wapella, IL on a Monday late morning. The ITB will bring this train to Clinton for the Canadian National to pick up.
Grain Elevators ~ Village of Hinckley ~ DeKalb County, Illinois
Nikon D7500, Nikkor 18-300, ISO 180, f/11.0, 18mm, 1/500s
Spring colours not engaging so its an image... Flight numbers appear to have dwindled in recent years
The mural on the Ardent Mills grain elevator, by Australian Artist Guido Van Helton, wraps all the way around the silos.
When you see something every day, you eventually stop seeing it altogether - that is, until you make a point of looking at it again. That's very true of me and best describes how this photo came into being.
The elevator itself holds 93.000 mt of grain. It can accommodate ships 750 feet in length and move 600 mtph.
There isn't much left in Primate, Saskatchewan, but the gorgeous old grain elevator still stands guard over the prairie under Saskatchewan's living skies. Thanks to Sandra Herber for guiding me to see these prairie giants.
A young Management Trainee took this picture from the caboose platform as the crew of Missouri Pacific's Topeka Local works the Overbrook elevator on MP's Topeka Branch while enroute back to Osawatomie. "Oz" was the Kansas Division headquarters at the time. The GP38-2 that was built earlier in the year looks good despite the fresh weathering of road dust. The branch line was ripped out sometime after the 1982 UP-MP-WP merger, ending service to this elevator. 5-22-1980
It's a cold day on the prairies of Saskatchewan. Here we see the traditional wooden elevator beside the new steel storage bins.
The artist tells that he was inspired by a young Native American girl leading other chilldren in a dance at Mankato's annual powwow.
Just south of the Lincoln Highway (old US 30) we ran across this grain elevator that looked to still be in operation along the CF&E RR,
A creative use for an old drive wheel for a flat belt.
A look back at winter.
Dedicated to those who are complaining about all the rain we are getting. Happy Fence Friday! HFF!
P.S. Please do not ask where I captured this image. ;)
From inside of the Canadian Northern Railway roundhouse in Big Valley, Alberta, looking out to the town's grain elevator.
A non-familiar but familiar face in IC 3108 leading the CN train M335 North out of Ashkum, IL. They would take the siding to meet a Southbound before they continued their trek North towards CN Kirk Yard in Gary, IN. They added this unit onto the train in Fulton, KY and it made it until the train’s destination at Kirk Yard in Gary, Indiana.
A grain elevator in Merkel, TX. I went there for a parade that was going to begin after dark. I got there early on purpose to look around and take photos.
Looking the other way from the image I posted before this one, you see the second elevator still standing at Neidpath - the old Sask. Pool, built in 1924 and closed in the early 80s. Originally there were four elevators here, but one burned down in the 50s (a common hazard for grain elevators, as grain dust is highly combustible and can cause explosions if ignited) and another was torn down. Neidpath must have been a bustling place in its heyday with four elevators.
When I first shot the elevator in 2014, I was scouting it during the day for a night shoot the farmer who owns the land drove up to check out what I was doing. We had a little chat and he seemed impressed and a little surprised that I had come all the way from Toronto to photograph old, abandoned grain elevators in Saskatchewan. "They're just so beautiful," I said. "They're an eyesore and danger to the kids that climb around inside them. I wish they'd just burn down," he said.
From the archives: Neidpath, Saskatchewan, Canada. 2016.
If you'd like to see more of my images from that trip, take a look at my Grain Elevator album or my Canadian Prairies album
I stumbled across this elevator complex (there's another storage area behind me) on the way from one scouted site to another. There was no name on the elevator and no indication of a town name nearby. That night, I searched the map for a name, but there was nothing: it seemed to be just a stop on the railway line.
Kansas, USA.
This trip to eastern Colorado and Kansas was a substitute (lemonade from lemons, if you will) for a storm chasing trip that same week that got cancelled. It turned out to be a lovely little trip. If you'd like to read about the trip and see some behind the scenes pics and video, take a look at my blog post about the Lemonade from Lemons tour. You can see all the images from the trip in my Colorado and Kansas album.
The lovely elevators are Horizon, this time in infrared.
Horizon, Saskatchewan.
If you'd like, take a look at my other Prairies images. As well, if you're feeling particularly interested, you can read an essay I wrote for Nathan Wirth's Slices of Silence blog on my feelings of connection to the places I shoot, especially the Prairies.