I'd be interested, too, as although I can't speak for Ontario, major grain production in the US had already moved at least to the middle midwest by the time the railroad era was well-advanced. From about the Civil War on, grain came mostly from the upper midwest, to a lesser extent from Illinois and Indiana, and the flow of freight was actually cars of grain moving eastward to feed mills for distribution to local dairy farmers. I assume Don is not talking about the enormous milling company or consignment storage silos along the Great Lakes? In the northeast, very few farmers had the acreage for cash crops; what they grew was for their own dairy herds.
Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > Don, > > Need info on the eastern version if possible. > Ed Sauers > From: Daniel McConnachie <[email protected]> > I would like to see an Eastern and a Western grain elevator. They were > different designs (roof/size). Most people forget that before the prairies > were opened up that most of the wheat produced in North America was grown in > Ontario and states like Ohio and Michigan and those elevators can still be > found trackside, just put to a different use, usually a feedmill or farm > supply building. > > Daniel McConnachie [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
