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The elevator was built in 1903 along the Illinois Midland Railroad; it was used to store locally farmed grain before the railroad shipped it to cities such as Peoria, Decatur, and Terre Haute, Indiana. Built by McIntyre and Wykle, the elevator is an example of a studded grain elevator, which uses vertical wooden studs in its walls to form its ...
In the 1850s, Chicago foods trade business rivals George Armour and George W. Dole joined forces in the grain trade, forming the roots of Armour, Dole, & Co. The company became a leading player in the city's grain market, eventually building 10,000,000 bushels worth of grain storage in the city.
The Potter and Barker Grain Elevator is a historic grain elevator located at 1N298 La Fox Road in La Fox, Illinois. It is situated next to the La Fox station . The elevator was built in 1868 by former whaling ship captain Lemuel Potter and his brother-in-law Henry Barker.
Cargill said the decision to sell the elevators was not related to the company's 2023 acquisition of Owensboro Grain Co., a family-owned soybean processing facility and refinery located in ...
The Seneca Grain Elevator consists of a 65-foot (20 m) grain elevator or "elevating warehouse" which rises four stories above its basement. The 40-foot (12 m) by 80-foot (24 m) structure dominates the site and overlooks downtown Seneca. Between 1924–39 corrugated metal siding was added to the building as a fire prevention measure. [2]
The Bloomer Line is owned by Alliance Grain Company, which owns the eight grain elevators served by the railroad. It is primarily a grain transporter, shipping carloads of corn, soybeans and wheat from these locations to the connecting railroads, but also serves several other industries, including a soybean processing plant in Gibson City and a fertilizer distribution facility in Colfax.
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.
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