Andover:
Wood: (
Satellite)
Little Bins: (
Satellite)
These towns are on the former Milwaukee mainline. But that route is now owned by BNSF instead of CP.
Andover
This town represents quite a bit of grain elevator history.
Old wood frame:
Concrete and two generations of old steel bins: |
| 1 of 5 photos posted by John Harker |
Many steel bins and a portable auger elevator:
An elevator built from scratch out in the country to load unit grain trains:
This new (2011) elevator is also a demonstration of elevator technologies. In addition to the expected loop track, it has both
concrete silos and big steel bins. It also has an oval ground pile with a permanent loading conveyor and a long building. (It was built with just a circular ground pile. But between Jul 2013 and May 2016, it was expanded to the oval.) But the use of ag bags surprised me. They first appeared in the May 2016 image. And this Sep 2016 image had a lot more of them. Between Jul 2017 and Sep 2020, the second steel bin was added. The second steel bin reduced the need for ag bags but did not eliminate them. There were still some in use in Oct 2022.
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1 of 3 photos posted by John Harker, cropped
Andover South Dakota |
This loop-track elevator was under construction in 2010.
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| Google Earth, Dec 2010 |
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Dennis DeBruler commented on John's post
This Google Map image shows that the second steel bin has been added recently.
https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4...
Google Earth shows that image was taken in Sep 2016 and that this facility was under construction in 2010.
That is the first time I've seen ag bags at a commercial elevator. |
This town was a hub for the Milwaukee Road. The mainline went east/west while a branch went north/south. But it was a small hub because I don't see any evidence of a locomotive service facility on the topo map. As we would expect, the north/south branch is gone. But I was surprised when a USGS map shows that BNSF, not CP, owns the mainline through here.
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| 1958 Andover Quad @ 24,000 |
Holmquist
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| 1 of 5 photos posted by John Harker, cropped |
Since John got a good view of the elevator, I chose an angle that shows that fertilizer is an important part of ag business.
Waubay
The Google Maps satellite image agrees with John's photo in that there is no trace of the two steel bins on the west side. Normally, I see bins added, not removed. I don't remember ever seeing such a good job of removing the concrete floor of a bin. Google Earth indicates that the bins were removed between Apr 2014 and Jun 2017.
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