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Flipping through the pages of Greg McDonnell’s book “Wheat Kings” I came across a photo from Fleming Saskatchewan in the late 1990’s with a nice large UGG elevator towering over the much smaller rusty, weather beaten Pool elevator. Hard to believe several years later only that lonely forgotten elevator would be the only one left and on Google maps today appears that it may still be there. It was a sad image this day and one found across the prairies of small town once so reliant on their connections to the railroad and their old wooden grain elevators. So many have fallen over the past few decades. Here a SD40, GP38 duo work hard hauling a long empty grain train westward past an elevator the railroad once served. The string of Canadian built cylindrical hoppers only adds to the classic scene, as does the weed choked and severed elevator service track. Things just will never be the same in the prairies without the line side elevators.
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Caption: Flipping through the pages of Greg McDonnell’s book “Wheat Kings” I came across a photo from Fleming Saskatchewan in the late 1990’s with a nice large UGG elevator towering over the much smaller rusty, weather beaten Pool elevator. Hard to believe several years later only that lonely forgotten elevator would be the only one left and on Google maps today appears that it may still be there. It was a sad image this day and one found across the prairies of small town once so reliant on their connections to the railroad and their old wooden grain elevators. So many have fallen over the past few decades. Here a SD40, GP38 duo work hard hauling a long empty grain train westward past an elevator the railroad once served. The string of Canadian built cylindrical hoppers only adds to the classic scene, as does the weed choked and severed elevator service track. Things just will never be the same in the prairies without the line side elevators.

Photographer:
Marcus W Stevens [1028] (more) (contact)
Date: 07/18/2003 (search)
Railway: Canadian Pacific (search)
Reporting Marks: CP 5747 (search)
Train Symbol: Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS: Broad view subdivision (search)
City/Town: Fleming (search)
Province: Saskatchewan (search)
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3 Comments
  1. awesome

  2. Very nice

  3. It’s also sad to see old tracks sitting half abandoned like in the foreground of this still photo!

    Excellent image to say the least!

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