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| Bob Summers posted The co-op elevator at Lorraine Kansas, now a branch location of the Central Prairie Co-op. Appears to be a post WWII Chalmers & Borton slip form concrete elevator with a couple of annexes built in the '50's or early '60's. The outside leg and truck receiving pit likely was added in the '70's when farmers, using larger harvesting equipment began delivering the grain to the elevator with larger tandem trucks, sometimes also pulling a trailer often called a "pup" to keep the grain away from the combines in the field to speed up the harvest. By the '80's semi's with hopper bottom grain trailers were coming into use here in Kansas. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Bob's post The east/west route, which served this elevator, was Santa Fe and the north/south route was Frisco. The southern and western "spokes" were acquired by Central Kansas Railway. But they are now also abandoned. https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer... |
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