Omaha, NE: Grain Elevators

big abandoned: (Satellite)
flour mill: (3D Satellite)

Abandoned Terminal Mill

Normally, the grainAban label goes on small elevators. Bob Summers explains below that this terminal elevator is now abandoned because the railroads no longer delay the payment of the shipment from a local elevator to a terminal elevator.

Kathy Black posted two photos with the comment: "I goofed on my previous post...Omaha NE"
[I could not find a previous post by Kathy concerning this elevator.]
Bob Summers What happened that some bins were removed? The first photo is interesting in that one gets a "cut away view" of an interstice bin when the two rows of round bins are not connecting. This type of design was common in early terminal elevators designed for blending wheat and making "mill mixes" to meet the specification of certain flour mill customers, a service or function no longer performed by terminal elevators since the transit provisions are no longer part of the rail freight rate structure.
Marc Mcclure They sliced it off Bob Summers for the Interstate 80 project. The jewell of the Tillotson Construction jobs. Blocks from there headquarters and a couple of projects. Vinton Street in Omaha. A terminal elevator by every definition. At one time. Omaha's largest.
Adam Dagendesh Missouri Pacific

Dennis DeBruler That looks like a lot of storage going to waste. The MoPac line is still an industrial spur just south of it.
https://www.visitomaha.com/listings/south-omaha-silos/62633/
Bob Summers Unusable terminal elevator space, Dennis DeBruler, is mostly due to the rail roads eliminating the transit provision in the tarriff or rate structure. Unless the terminal elevator is within efficient trucking distance of high grain producing country, and also capable of loading full 100+ hopper car "unit trains" within 24 hours, they are obsolete. This is the major reason for the significant addition of storage space at the country elevators and new unit train facilities being built also in the high grain production areas.

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Adam Dagendesh commentedon Kathy's post

Adam Dagendesh commentedon Kathy's post

Flour Mill

David Budka posted two photos with the comment:

I am trying to develop a time line of when this mill was built. I work here. I know the main elevator and west annex were built in 1928 by Edwin Ahlskog. The five grinding bins were built prior to that. The south annex was built after that.In December 1931 an explosion wrecked the packaging department at the mill. The new mill was built over the old packaging department, and construction was started in February 1932.The old Updike Mill building houses the cleaning house.

Dennis DeBruler https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4...

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