How an Elevator Works:

When grain is brought to the rail siding in wagons and trucks,
it is graded and weighed at the receiving scale…

(to right) Wheat Pool fonds, S.11, Pubs. SWP - The Story of Wheat, 1954. ¹⁵⁷

(above) Wheat Pool fonds, S.10, Sub. Elevators F2. ¹⁵⁸


…dumped into a pit beneath the scale… ¹⁵⁹	…then elevated by a conveyor belt of buckets called the ‘leg’ to the top of the building. ¹⁶⁰	From here, it is channeled into the storage bin allocated to that type and quality of grain. ¹⁶¹

When sufficient grain is available and a railcar is in place, the bin’s contents are weighed on the shipping scale, dumped into a pit and elevated once again in order to be channeled into the boxcar. The grain then travels to large storage terminals.


Two ships docked at the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Vancouver terminal ¹⁶²	Vancouver Terminal. ¹⁶³	Ship loaded at the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Vancouver terminal ¹⁶⁴

Previous — Anti-Pool | Next — Elevator Acquisition