This ex Manitoba Pool grain elevator in Netley, Manitoba is an anachronism, a working wooden grain elevator. These days the elevators are all concrete behemoths, loading 100+ rail cars in a giant loop.
Not so this humble elevator. Owned by Scoular, the Netley grain elevator in Petersfield, Manitoba receives and ships grains. There is rail access but I believe most product is shipped by truck.
The elevator was built by the Pool in 1948 and refurbished in 1986. Agricore sold it in 2000 and it was privately owned for 16 years before Scoular acquired it.
More information is available on the Grain Elevators of Canada web site.
Steve Boyko
Rare indeed these days.
ReplyDeleteBustedknuckles has a post of abandoned train tracks you might could waste a few minutes checking out. Those elevators look like some of the loneliest places on earth.
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