One of the most beautiful videos I've ever seen,our history.

@TonyVRailfanning

2 ай бұрын

Thank you, sadly, the skyscrapers of the prairies are disappearing at an alarming rate even since I have filmed that episode three of the elevators in this episode are no longer there

Excellent history of grain elevators. Please continue the series

@TonyVRailfanning

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Ill plan to do another trip next year

we also went to a company which made portable elevators on 4 wheels. Ours on the farm were wooden barns not much larger than a garden shed but we did have a circular one too. caroline

simply spectacular drone footage, I have not seen better!!!!!

@TonyVRailfanning

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Gary, glad you enjoyed this

Most enjoyable and interesting, skilfully filmed. I hope you carry on with the series.

@TonyVRailfanning

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, next summer I will head into other areas and make some more.

I Love These!! Thank you for putting in the time to make these..

@TonyVRailfanning

10 ай бұрын

Your welcome, glad you enjoyed them

Nice video. Will be a sad day when all of these are gone

@TonyVRailfanning

Жыл бұрын

I agree, there are some being saved so at least there will be a few

Great images of the last two elevators. Impressive structures. Thanks for sharing.

@TonyVRailfanning

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Sir!

Excellent video Tony V! We enjoyed watching and your documentation of the elevators. First time I've ever seen the inside of the elevator. Well done!

@TonyVRailfanning

Жыл бұрын

Thank you both. Have a great weekend

Very interesting vid, Tony! Thank you for showing us this part of Canadian history! 👍💯😊

@TonyVRailfanning

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Hunsbuckel

Another fascinating Video! Awesome work documenting those Prairie icons. They are majestic historic structures. Gotta love those old grain elevators, roundhouses and old water towers :-)

@TonyVRailfanning

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching, this was a lot of fun to do. I learnt so much.

just Exceptional Tony...thank you ! !

@TonyVRailfanning

Жыл бұрын

Your very welcome, thanks for watching

You are brave to put your drone up with all those pigeons around.

@TonyVRailfanning

Жыл бұрын

Oddly enough Ive never in the 4 years I had the drone hit a bird. they seem to stay just far enough away moving slowly seems to help

It is a shame to see these old icons of the Prairie towns. The amount of wood that went into these elevators is hard to believe.

@TonyVRailfanning

Жыл бұрын

And several of these have since been torn down believe it or not just in the last year

Young, Saskatchewan, is actually on the CN Watrous Subdivision. Austin MacAulay

@TonyVRailfanning

Жыл бұрын

Is it? Oops, thanks for the clarification

when at a party in south alberta we saw a metal elevator which at the time was reletively new.

@TonyVRailfanning

4 ай бұрын

Yes, many wooden elevators are being replaced with those

Excellent video, Tony! The view from the drone looking down into the elevator that was being torn down was interesting. One doesn't think much about the construction when driving past them. Sad to see them slowly disappear. I remember going on trips with the family when I was a kid and you always knew where the next town was because you could see the elevators in the distance. Cheers, Jack

@TonyVRailfanning

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jack, I agree. this was a very enlightening trip for me as i ad neve seen the inside of one either

Oh, BTW, very interesting from a boy way down South and knows nothing of a grain elevator..WELL DONE

@TonyVRailfanning

2 ай бұрын

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it

Good work Tony V. Not sure why the photo of the Vid did not how on the CRO page though

@TonyVRailfanning

Жыл бұрын

Your welcome, ya I noticed that. Strange

What in the world were these tiny windows for way up in the top of these elevators and who would be up there looking out????

@TonyVRailfanning

2 ай бұрын

That is the area where the grain spout can be turned to dump the grain into the appropriate bin. There is actually a hand operated elevator that you can ride up to the top. Remember that lights are not used in many places due to the fire hazard.

Hi there. when i worked in alberta back in the 1980s we had a grain elevator and railway at our local town of Redwater. I wonder if it still there?

@TonyVRailfanning

2 ай бұрын

Redwater still has at least one remaining wooden elevator

@user-cn4rg2bs4p

2 ай бұрын

Used to be the one by the crossing at bottom of the high street. caroline

was the elevator being dismantled the one in milden? if so why are they tearing it down and are they reusing the wood?

@TonyVRailfanning

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it was being torn down and they were reusing the wood elsewhere

also are they gonna tear up the railway line between conquest and herschel from what I understand that line has been abandoned for quite awhile. Also is the pool elevator in conquest used for storage or do they use it to load railcars?. Just wondering because in the video I saw 4 grain hoppers by that elevator

@TonyVRailfanning

Жыл бұрын

At this time there is no plans to remove the line that I know of and yes they still load grain cars at the elevator there. The tracks still show use when I was there

@sinatralerby7545

Жыл бұрын

@@TonyVRailfanning Does mobilgrain have trackage rights i guess to service the elevator at conquest?. If so cp rail i think owns the conquest sub but mobilgrain is allowed to service conquest.

@sinatralerby7545

Жыл бұрын

sorry i meant the herschael sub instead of the conquest sub

@TonyVRailfanning

Жыл бұрын

@@sinatralerby7545 I unfortunately don’t know, sorry

Nice pictures , but the music so odd, try blues or country instead.

@TonyVRailfanning

Ай бұрын

I can’t please all of the people all of the time I can only please some of the people some of the time

@q9260

Ай бұрын

@@TonyVRailfanning KZread offers a database with free to use songs. Maybe check them out ?! On your KZread Studio in the left menue all the way down.

Very good videos, Tony! But a very sad day when they are all gone.🥲

@TonyVRailfanning

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Pixie, it truly will be. For generations to come I hope videos like this will keep them alive in some form