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Originally Posted by Echoes
Saskatoon still has some concrete giants. I love them.
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It's really just the small town wooden elevators that are endangered... the big concrete and metal beasts are here to stay. After all, all that grain has to be stored somewhere!
In the old days when it took the better part of a day to go 20 km, you needed an elevator in every whistle stop. These days, grain companies have a smaller number of much larger terminals. A single facility like this one in Lethbridge replaces several small country elevators:
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traingeek.ca