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| Bob Kisken posted bird city kansas Dennis DeBruler: The railroad was a branch of the CB&Q. It is now the Nebraska, Kansas & Colorado Railnet. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Bob's post Wow, that town still has five wood elevators. And it also has a rather complete history of grain storage: bolted steel bins, slip form concrete silos, three ground piles, one large bin and many smaller bins. |
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| Jacqueline Reimer posted Bucket list. Bird City, Kansas. Loved it. Joe Shryock: Any still in use? |
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| Jacqueline commented on Joe's question nagative. |
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| Bob Hisken posted Robert Wagner: Think its east end of Bird City... |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Robert's comment Indeed it is. |
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| Bob Kisken posted BIRD CITY KS |
Wesley Peters posted four photos with the comment:
Finally made my pilgrimage to Bird City, KS to see the last surviving wooden elevator row in the state.One of five surviving elevator rows in the US to feature elevators standing on opposite sidings along a single rail line.I will be sending an email to the Kansas Historical Society in oder to bring awareness to how important this site is to the state and to the country. Hopefully it will spark an interest in preserving this row.I am still trying to determine when each elevator was built and who owned each one.Photographed on 4/9/2025.Photos courtesy of Wesley Peters.
Howard Raymond: Wesley, here is a message that I received, I think that the Kemp Carpenter name is still visible on one of them.
The wooden elevators in Bird City as I remember were the MGM Elevator, Albert Weaver Elevator, Co-op Elevator, McDougal-Sager Elevator, and Kemp & Carpenter Elevator.
Paul Flowers: I witnessed one of them turned into a rocket in Chester Montana in 1967, A welder was working somewhere near the bottom, who would have ever thought that grain dust could explode. it landed in an open field about half a mile away.
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