Linden Yard: (Satellite, all of the yard tracks are gone)
GN also had grain elevators in their Union Yard on the north side of the Mississippi River.
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| Marty Bernard posted 3. Great Northern Elevator, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1920. Photographs and captions from the Minnesota Historical Society. Tom Lyman Ray McCollough shared Bob Summers: Smokestack for coal fired boiler for steam engine used to power this massive elevator. In this northern setting the indoor boxcar unloading / loading would be a good thing. american-colossus also has this photo It was built before 1899 and could store 1.5 million bushels. AnonymousMarch 9, 2011 at 11:45 PM one of the "boxes" on the end of main structure probably enclosed the power transmission z elevators of that era were typically engine-driven [that's what the steam plant in foreground is all about] z large multi-sheave pulleys at bottom and top connected rotary motion to the leg drives via line shaft across top of headhouse z each leg was engaged with a friction clutch |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Marty's post Per Tom Lyman's comment, it was the grain elevator shown on this topo. 1952 Minneapolis South Quadrangle @ 1:24,000 |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Tom Lyman's comment Tom Lyman Thanks for the location. I was able to find it on a Sanborn Map. It had a capacity of 1.25 million bushels. |
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| Tom Lyman commented on a photo Here a photo of the GN Elevator @ Lyndale Jct. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1655234944553137&set=gm.774754626065201 |
