Grain elevators litter the landscape in Eastern /\/\onTana!, but too many are slowly falling apart, abandoned when the railroad pulled up tracks, or replaced by a row of modern multi-story round concrete tubes on end. While not attractive or nostalgic like this tin sided (or the much scarcer wooden) elevator, the new tubes often have an innovative railroad idea: a large circular siding for the grain cars, so a train of 100+ cars can pull in, go around the circle once, stopping to fill each car, or possibly a number of cars at once, then it is ready and back at the mainline having gone in a full circle. Photos to follow, next time I head to Lewistown…I think there is one outside of Moccasin.
South of Eddy’s Corner.
(1/400, f8, 65mm, ISO 200, shot in black and white with an in camera yellow filter)
While the railroad used to service this elevator, now it curves off behind it.
A more colorful view:
(1/400, f8, 33mm, ISO 200)
Yup, the birds are still there!
(Full sized crop from the reduced photo above)
~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>
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