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Railroad grain terminal in Hope, Minnesota. A grain elevator or grain terminal is a facility designed to stockpile or store grain. In the grain trade, the term "grain elevator" also describes a tower containing a bucket elevator or a pneumatic conveyor, which scoops up grain from a lower level and deposits it in a silo or other storage facility.
Marine A grain elevator, also part of the "elevator alley" and across from the Lake & Rail Grain Elevator. The Standard Elevator , was named after the Standard Milling Company and built in 1926. Wollenberg Grain and Seed Elevator , wooden "country style" elevator formerly located in Buffalo, New York; destroyed by fire in October 2006.
The grain elevator rises to 300 feet (91 meters). The silo was built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1923–1924, with a capacity of 3.8 million bushels (134 thousand m 3 ). [ 4 ] In 2009 it had been converted from a grain elevator to a condominium tower containing 24 floors and 228 condominiums by Turner Development Group and architect ...
Defunct elevator in Merrinee, Victoria, Australia. A grain elevator in Nebraska, June 2015. Silos are hazardous, and people are killed or injured every year in the process of filling and maintaining them. [14] The machinery used is dangerous, and workers can fall from a tower silo's ladder or work platform. Several fires have occurred over the ...
Grain elevators in the southwest and western regions of Minnesota are among a group of eight being sold. Other elevators are located in Illinois, Nebraska, Colorado and South Dakota.
Quaker Square Factory Elevator 218 / 66 12 1939 Originally built as grain silos for the Quaker Oats Company, was made into a hotel in 1980. It is now owned by the University of Akron and serves as a Residence Hall. [5] Part of a National Register of Historic Places-listed site. 5 Akron City Center Hotel: 209 / 64 19 1969
Quaker Oats built 36 grain silos on the site in 1932. Each silo was 120 feet tall and 24 feet in diameter, and together they housed 1,500,000 US bushels (53,000,000 L) of grain. [4] The complex is now the only remaining visual reminder of what was once Akron's largest single employer. Quaker Oats terminated production in Akron in 1970.
Grain elevators in New York (state) (5 P) O. Grain elevators in Oklahoma (11 P) ... Ross Grain Elevator; S. John Scott Farm; Sheridan Flouring Mills, Inc. Silo Point ...