Danville, KS: Grain elevators including one with tile silos

Old elevator: (Satellite)
New elevators: (Satellite)

Bob Summers shared his post with the comment: "I had never noticed this old tile beauty before. Across the tracks from the co-op at Danville Kansas."
Bob Summers. An old tile survivor with welded? steel annex bins. There was a time when this was an up to date advanced design being a fireproof alternative to wood. Looks like the loadout spout was modified so they could load hopper cars, so would have been still active in the mid '60's.

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Bob Summers posted four photos with the comment:

Four pictures, two elevators - both of the Danville Co-op in Danville Kansas. The first two pictures are of the smaller, presumedly older, elevator working house and annex. Both appear to be Chalmbers & Borton builds. They are a couple of blocks distance from each other. Not sure of the history here in Danville, but sometimes this situation arises when back in the day there was a linehouse or independent business that at some point went out of business and was acquired by the co-operative. Although the railroad no longer serves these elevators this is on the BNSF mainline west of Wellington Kansas that goes into northwest Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle.

Jack Daw So they are purely truck served today, both in and out?
Bob Summers. Yep. Virtually all of the elevators unless can load unit trains unless served by a short line carrier.

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Danny Farnsworth An old Santa Fe 40’ box!!!

Jim Merrick Yes, thanks for including the Santa Fe boxcar used for storage!

The Santa Fe was the foremost among railroads for being friendly to lineside businesses by helping them out with quick-and-easy storage.

The Santa Fe --back in the day-- realized that it would be supremely good PR and advertising to provide used boxcars at a minimal cost to area farmers and businesses. As boxcars aged or came due for repair or rebuild, the AT&SF sold them off --fairly cheaply-- to farmers and businesses throughout their territory. One did not have to be close to the track to get a really GOOD deal on having a dead boxcar pulled off the AT&SF track and transported to your property. Santa Fe made it easy.

So, we see far more Santa Fe box and refrigerator cars being used as storage sheds by farmers and businesses than **any other railroad**. By far.

They also sold off covered hoppers for use by businesses (see the one in La Junta, Colorado, right along US-50.) Other railroads did all this, too, but no one had a more active program than Santa Fe.

Jesse T Wells commented on Jim's comment on Bob's fourth photo
I would say the CNW would be a close second. Then the RI by way of foreclosure lot guys bought cars at 10 cents on the dollar.

Jesse T Wells commented on Jim's comment on Bob's fourth photo