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A very belated Film Friday post. Here's the Hazelhurst, IL grain elevator as seen in December of 2003. This is one of my favorite elevators in northern Illinois. It catches late evening winter light very well, as you can see.
I don't recall exactly what the gear I used for this was, but I'd guess that it was either my F1N or T90 and probably my 35-105mm f3.5 zoom. Film was Agfa Vista 200.
I don't usually do any shooting when the skies are this bland, but I have no idea when I can get back to Butze in eastern Alberta near the Saskatchewan border.
Just west of Superb I came to the village of Major. According to Wikipedia there are 35 people living in Major plus two former Pool elevators, both privately owned.
I didn't see any of the 35 residents around as I checked out the elevators. I'm not sure when this railway line was abandoned but I have seen a 1999 photo with two tracks in Major.
as seen/taken from the Steel Bridge (during a pause in the abundant bridge shaking traffic), Portland, OR. Taken on the recent PDXNightOwls TriMet Photowalk. LightBox. NB53200,02
This fisherman, brightly clad in an orange survival suit, was dwarfed by gain elevators as he walked out the harbor to a favorite spot - all the while testing for thin ice ahead of him with a heavy steel chipper.
A view of the grain elevator at Mountaire Farms in Frankford, Sussex County, Delaware. The older building in the foreground is labeled as the Frankford Water Plant on Google Maps but I doubt that was the original use of that building.
Nikon D850 with Nikkor 19mm PC-E F4 perspective correction lens. F11, ISO 64, 1/125th second exposure. Oben tripod with Benro 3-way geared head.
BNSF 1501 leads the Watts Local west and back into the yard in Dilworth, MN.
Weather-wise, not the best of days as evidenced by the high clouds in this shot, but action-wise, one of the best. I spotted a total of 18 trains during my 7 hours by the tracks, including:
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Not a bad day, one I wish I could revisit...
Union Pacific SD60M No. 6348 leads an 85-car Yermo, California to North Platte, Nebraska merchandise train through Tintic Valley approaching Boulter, Utah on Oct. 22, 1994. In the background is an abandoned grain elevator, built by mining magnate Jessie Knight in a futile attempt to tap the agriculture industry in a desert region of west central Utah.
I'm not sure how long the old grain elevator in Adams, OK has left but I managed to get a picture of it before it met its end. There are no tricks here. This is the precarious angle that this old elevator currently resides at.
I shot this on 8x10 and had hoped to utilize that shot for my grain elevator project. Alas, I'm still having woes with the 8x10 setup. So I give you a digital version edited in Silver Efex to mimic what I was trying to accomplish.
Boissevain had 3 grain elevators when I first visited in 2016. Alas, this one, formerly operated by United Grain Growers, is the last still standing in 2023.
Madonna interviews Maurice inside Val Marie's old grain elevator. Maurice's father used to be the agent in charge of this facility, but the old building has been closed for many years and efforts to restore it inside and out are ongoing. Madonna has created award winning radio documentaries, although in recent years she has been more involved with music, performance art, and writing. Regardless of the format, she cannot resist a good story, and no doubt the interview is on file somewhere awaiting future development.
I photograph whatever comes my way; if my friends are doing something interesting, I'll probably be there to document it. For this shot, I toned down a very contrasty RAW original by applying some HDR processing. Then I converted to monochrome and added a light sepia wash.
Photographed in Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2016 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Taken in Rosebush, Michigan.
Leaving our overnight stay relatively early in the day and not having far to go to our destination, we thought we'd poke around to see what we could find. Being from an urban environment, this was one of the places we thought was worthy of a shot or two.
Urban grain elevators of Archer Daniels Midland along Hiawatha Ave in South Minneapolis.
Farmers, Railroads, truckers and ADM combine to feed the world.
The story goes that when the railroad workers were surveying out the tracks to this district they asked some locals "what is beyond" that horizon?" to which the reply was "more land". The story may be apocryphal, but who knows.
Moreland, Saskatchewan
August 2017
As an eastern city kid, I was amazed at these colourful, industrial behemoths when I first saw them; some things never change.
Kodachorme scan.
Stumbled across this cool grain elevator when out searching for covered bridges. Thought that it was very cool and unique. Located in Greencastle, IN
From the archives: Lepine, Sask., in the winter of 2017.
This was one of my only winter trips back to Saskatchewan since I moved away, and I had so many wonderful shots of the elevators in Lepine and a recently demolished one in nearby Wakaw -- only to lose most of them when my USB stick got corrupted. Luckily this one survived.
It looks like they rerouted the highway first, then abandoned the rail line. Nothing else to do but close.
The 1923 Sharples grain Elevator. This shows the expansion storage unit. Love this elevator. Can't wait to visit again.
Before we delve into the rest of the days surprise chase, we have to take it back a few hours. When word reached us that IC2466 was northbound on CN G889, destined for Dewey, IL, we knew we had to catch it. We scoured all the info on any group we could find, but only learned of its whereabouts after a message to a friend (thanks again Andy). While shooting it in light would have been preferred - and did end up happening - the current position and schedule suggested this would not be so. So, we decided to travel south to meet our blue devil deep in the night.
Despite actually getting pulled over in Arcola (a license plate light out! really? ah, man) on the way and horrendously botching a similar long exposure in Neoga, the night did bear fruit. As always, I'm hunting for grain elevators to replace Lodge, but Hayes was one I've shot a few times in actual fact. My previous long exposure attempt here was okay, but this time around, things went a lot better. Even though I had barely set up in time!
IC2466 led G889 by the old Hayes grain elevator. There's not much info I can find on this elevator, though the text on the panels - lit up by the 2466s lights - claims it was built by a company in Sioux City, IA. It is a classic wooden box elevator, clad with metal, and that makes it a brilliant photo target. Visible on the slowly collapsing elevator and its pair of silos is the green of the Hayes intermediate signal telling that blue devil to absolutely send it north.
We'd find the train coming to a rest in Tolono on the siding, the crew dying there, and we expected never to see it again. Instead, upon waking up the next morning, we learned it was quite the opposite. What an exciting night and day!
Taken along US Route 66 in Livingston County, Illinois South of Pontiac.
As far as we could figure out, this is an old abandoned weigh station related to the grain elevator behind it. The scale is visible next to the small building and the RR tracks are on the left of the picture. The scale doesn't look like it would accommodate much more than a small wagon like the one on it in the picture.