Hitschmann, KS: A Classic Slip-Form Grain Elevator

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Street View, Jun 2024

The Ellsworth Coop posted nine photos with the comment:

🌾Our small but mighty Hitschmann elevator working hard this wheat harvest.

Our Hitschmann elevator may be small in size, but it plays a big role in our operation. 

Thank you to our loyal customers for returning each harvest.🌟

Duane Reif: Many of That style of 250,000 Bu. elevators were built all over the state of Kansas. Great improvement for the grain industry in the late 50s.

John McCall shared

John McCall: This is one of a series of stand alone elevators (no towns) on an old dead end rail line west of Hollywood, KS. I wasn't sure this was still open when I looked at it a year or so ago.

Christopher O Johnson: Not many two ton trucks anymore, when I was a kid we'd sit in line for hours to dump. If you had a ten wheeler you were big time, alot of pickups even then. Now if you have to wait ten minutes to dump its a crisis. Never seen a elevator with the red and blue stripe on the bins.

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It was the Santa Fe railroad.

1969/71 Dubuque and Claflin Quads @ 24,000