RETROactive has posted an updated list of Alberta grain elevators. According to their list, there are 110 wooden grain elevators remaining on the railway rights-of-way.
You can see photos and descriptions of Alberta’s grain elevators here on Grain Elevators of Canada. We’re always adding more – eight in March, including Cardston, Carstairs and Trochu!
There have been lots of additions in the first 11 days of March, 2018! Thanks to Adam Bouvier, Gary Rich, Marc Simpson and Michael Truman for their contributions this month.
The graph at right shows the growth in the site’s size since its resurrection in late November 2017. We have well over 300 grain elevators online, with more to come!
As always, your contributions are welcome – just email me at steve@traingeek.ca and we can get started.
New elevators this month:
I want to thank Gary Rich, BW Bandy and Adam Bouvier for their latest contributions to Grain Elevators of Canada! Click on the elevator(s) below to see the full page with more photos and more information.
Thanks for contributing! If you would like to contribute, email me at steve@traingeek.ca with photos that you have taken and we can put them up!
New contributor Gary Rich has started to send some photos in for publication here on Grain Elevators of Canada. Please enjoy his photos of Tompkins and Lake Valley, Saskatchewan to start!
Welcome, Gary!
I wanted to highlight a few new contributions to the site, from BW Bandy and Marc Simpson. Click on the photos to see a larger version!
I’d like to welcome Bob St. Cyr as a new contributor to Grain Elevators of Canada.
Bob is a fine art photographer and has shared a few of his stunning images with this site.
See some of his contributions:
Mark Zulkoskey has been photographing grain elevators in Saskatchewan for 10 years, and has photographed all but nine of them.
Thank you, Mark, for contributing some of your work to this site!
You can see some of them as links from his contributor page.
I’d like to issue a warm welcome to my friend, Jason Paul Sailer.
Jason and I have gone railfanning and elevator fanning several times, both in “his” province of Alberta and “my” province of Manitoba.
A few elevators he has contributed photos of include:
Pat Scrimgeour has contributed many grain elevators to Grain Elevators of Canada. These date from his trips to the prairie provinces in the mid-2000s and cover towns from Antler to Zenon Park.
Some of Pat’s work is shown at:
BW Bandy travels the back roads in Alberta and beyond, looking for interesting buildings and signs to photograph and share. His blog Everybody Has To Be Somewhere is well worth reading, both for the photographs but also for his wry sense of humour.
Some of BW’s elevator photos can be seen at: