During his trip out west on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe back in March of 1943, Jack Delano spied this enormous grain elevator while they were crossing Kansas. This facility has a capacity of 10 million bushels of grain! Note its size compared to the automobile seen just left of center.
I also note the variety of freight cars at right. We can see boxcars from the Santa Fe, the Chesapeake and Ohio, the New York Central, a wooden truss rod Great Northern, and a round top Seaboard Air Line (labeled for automobile and furniture loading). Also in the mix is a Pennsylvania gondola. An interesting variety indeed!
Jack,
I see about 7 more gondolas and two hoppers in the track alongside the facility. What in the world would these have been used for? Disposing of processing waste such as potentially explosive dust?
Matt, I don’t know why the hoppers and gons are spotted there. The gons at left are a bit unusual, appearing to be perhaps a bottom-dump model. This photo is cropped out of the larger image, and shows (a very blurry) view of the first two cars in that group.
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