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The Federal Grain elevator at Horizon was built 1922 and was taken over by the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool in 1972. It was operated by the Wheat Pool until the CPR rail line was closed and abandoned in 1996. In 1999 a group of local farmers called the Red Coat Road and Rail Ltd, purchased part of the branch line (a 114.5 kilometre section of track from Pangman to Assiniboia), and a number of elevators along the line, Horizon Federal Elevator included.
Horizon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
I wrote a blog post about my springtime Saskatchewan trip that has some behind-the-scenes pics and stories which you might enjoy.
I love photographing on the Canadian Prairies and I've been travelling there to do so since 2013. If you'd like to see my other Prairie images, feel free to take a look at the album.
I have photographed these grain elevators many times but felt that this might be my last opportunity. The for-sale sign that was displayed early in the winter is no longer posted. If it has been sold, I fear for its future.
Kane's first grain elevator, built in 1918, burned down in 1947 and the older portion in the picture was built by Patterson in the same year to replace it. The newer part of the set was built in 1981.
Kane also had a UGG grain elevator with two annexes that was demolished in 1996.
WSORs T-004 road freight sails by a large grain facility outside Whitewater, WI with a quartet of matching SD40s.
This is one of the largest grain elevators in the world. It holds 17 million bushels and is half a mile long.
This is the scene next to that unknown elevator I showed a few days ago, which I have since discovered is a stop in the railway called Tractor. I loved this little elevator and the enormous silos which seem to dwarf it.
Tractor, 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.
There are two grain elevators at Merricourt. They are huge - one concrete and one brick (that's not something you see every day!) - and I assume that Merricourt was once a bustling town. Now it's a near-ghost town with maybe one or two families still living there. Both elevators are abandoned.
Merricourt, North Dakota.
I wrote a blog post about my December 2019 trip to Manitoba and North Dakota, if you're interested in reading about it.
The elevator might look small in this composition, but at one time it would have been virtually the only thing visible for miles around. The railways connected small towns like Parkman (and the farmers around Parkman) to the world - allowing them to send their grain all the way to Thunder Bay and then, through the Great Lakes, out to the world. Once the branch railways closed, the elevators closed and many of the towns that grew up around them were abandoned. The small settlement of Parkman still exists, but just barely.
If you'd like, take a look at my other Prairies images, as well as my ongoing project to photograph old, abandoned grain elevators. 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.
An unnamed elevator somewhere in North Dakota. I usually target interesting grain elevators based on online scouting before I even start a trip, but I just came across this one on my journeys.
North Dakota.
I wrote a blog post about my December 2019 trip to Manitoba and North Dakota, if you're interested in reading about it.
This is one of two very large abandoned and crumbling grain elevators in Merricourt (the other is made of concrete). Brick grain elevators are very rare (although I believe there is a second one in North Dakota), so it was fascinating to see this one.
Merricourt, North Dakota.
I wrote a blog post about my December 2019 trip to Manitoba and North Dakota, if you're interested in reading about where this image was made.
After always seeing these on the UP I shot my first one on the BNSF since they have began to lease them. HLCX 3801 leading M-CHIGAL through Mazon, IL.
The grain elevator in Sims, IN on the western edge of Grant County. Every so often the Central Railroad will bring in empty grain hoppers for loading. They have their own switch engine to move the cars around for loading. The elevator sits along the former NKP/N&W Cloverleaf tracks.
Final approach into Tolono, IL where theyll work for a few hours, run around, and head back towards Danville. Seen here just outside of town climbing the grade among the sea of corn.
The grain is dumped from the truck into a pit where it slides down to a bucket elevator that carries it to the top of the silo where it can then be distributed into a storage bin. Wye Mills is an unincorporated community in Talbot County, Maryland.
Print size 8x10 inches. Happy Truck Thursday
I visited the old ghost town of Neidpath twice - in 2014 and 2016. This image is from 2016 when there was a lot more rain than this year in which farmers and ranchers are suffering from near drought conditions.
There were once 4 elevators in this town; only two are left. This one (the Pioneer) was built in 1924 and closed in the early 80s.
From the archives: Neidpath, Saskatchewan, Canada. 2016.
At one time, grain elevators could be found every 8 to 10 miles along the railway lines in western Canada. That allowed most farmers to make a round trip to deliver grain with a horse and wagon in one day. Though they started appearing in the late 19th century, the number of grain elevators peaked in 1938, when there were nearly 6,000 primary (country) elevators in the Prairie provinces. Many factors led to the decline of the primary elevator: the Depression, increased mechanization, improved roads for transportation, rural depopulation, the closing of branch lines of the railway and the buying out or merging of the grain companies. In 2004 there were only 197 primary licenced grain elevators left in Saskatchewan. Many of the old, wooden elevators have been destroyed, but some, like this one in Dorothy Alberta, remain - weathered but beautiful and stalwart.
Source: Dommasch, H. (1986) Prairie Giants. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books.
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
In the foreground is the Federal grain elevator in Horizon, Saskatchewan. It was built in 1922 and closed in 1999. Interestingly, it was designated as a Municipal Heritage Property in 2004, which makes it eligible for government funding for preservation, though the town around it has been abandoned.
If you'd like, take a look at my other Prairies images, as well as my ongoing project to photograph old, abandoned grain elevators. 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.
The other elevator at Horizon, the Sask Pool elevator, was built in 1923 and also closed in 1999. The annex, probably built in the early 60s like the one on the Federal elevator, has developed a very interesting wobble and lean.
If you'd like, take a look at my other Prairies images, as well as my ongoing project to photograph old, abandoned grain elevators. 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.
I know this was not the ideal time to photograph the Milky Way, but hey I was there. The moon was just to the South of us half full, and I was surprised at the number of cars that constantly drove by. In spite of that we decided to give it a go. I wanted to see this iconic grain elevator in different light, and I am pleased that I could see any of the milky way at all.
I was exploring the back roads around Oakesdale, Washington when I came across this old grain elevator. It was a long way from the nearest blacktop and I wonder if that helped put it out of business.
If I left 20ish minutes earlier I would've gotten more shots, but a one and done with this unit is fine, too. Hard to pass this guy up when there's not a cloud in the sky which seems to be just about impossible these days, just like an RCPE train running daylight on the Huron Sub (besides the MMNAU).