Depot: (
Satellite)
East Wood Grain Elevator: (
Satellite)
Museum/Minneapolis & St. Louis (M&StL) Depot
The west wood grain elevator is in the left background.
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East Wood Grain Elevator
The right background looks like the fertilizer supply facility for the co-op. This grain elevator has grown considerably from its start with a significantly large wood elevator.
The fertilizer supply facility must get rail service because it has an industrial siding from the mainline and has a hopper unloading conveyor. But I don't see a fall protector in the above view for the elevator to get rail service.
West Wood Grain Elevator
No street view driver went into town. We can tell from the satellite image that it hasn't grown much since it was built.
Both Wood Grain Elevators
Wesley Peters
posted five photos with the comment:
Grain Elevator Photography Trip 2, North Dakota/South Dakota/Minnesota.
Fairfax, Renville County, MN.
East Complex- Fairfax Grain & Supply Co-op. False-front drive-thru headhouse built in 1976, Hogenson Construction Co. 200,000-bushel capacity.
One of six surviving drive-thru headhouses by Hogenson Construction Co. in Minnesota.
West Complex- Great Western Elevator Co. Built in 1895. Bushel capacity unknown. The previous elevator on the site was destroyed by arson, along with two other elevators along the siding, on July 8, 1895. Incendiaries were used to set all three elevators ablaze. 5,000-bushels of wheat were destroyed.
Last (confirmed) surviving elevator built for the Great Western Elevator Co. in the Midwest.
Photographed on 7/20/2025.
Photos courtesy of Wesley Peters.
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