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Lack of transportation causing storage problems. September 23, 1979
Waiting In Line...are farmers hauling grain to the Pillsbury elevator in Council Bluffs. Long lines of grain trucks have been a common sight in the area as farmers try to make room for the coming harvest, estimated to be the largest in Iowa history.
Lack of transportation causing storage problems. September 23, 1979
Standing By A Grain Elevator...are a number of hopper cars to haul grain. But there are not enough cars to haul all the grain that needs to be moved and a Rock Islan strike of the past few weeks have made the situation worse.
Bartlett Grain To Buy Elevator - C&NW Property 'Under Contract' May 17, 1961
The Kansas City Firm . . . of Bartlett and Co. Grain, is in the process of buying this 2.5 million-bushel grain elevator here, owned by the Chicago and North Western Railroad.
Council Bluffs Elevators Play Major Part In Local Railroad Industry - Furnish Employment For 224 Men With Payroll Of $154,000
Crowell Elevator Company . . . Thirtieth street and First avenue. Capacity: 1,200,000 bushels. Owned by Rock Island railroad.
Council Bluffs Elevators Play Major Part In Local Railroad Industry - Furnish Employment For 224 Men With Payroll Of $154,000
Updike Grain Corporation . . . Tenth street and Avenue L. Capacity: 2,750,000 bushels. Owned by North Western railroad.
Council Bluffs Elevators Play Major Part In Local Railroad Industry - Furnish Employment For 224 Men With Payroll Of $154,000
Butler-Welsh Grain Company . . . Twenty-fourth avenue and Fourth street. Capacity: 370,000 bushels. Owned by Milwaukee railroad.
Council Bluffs Elevators Play Major Part In Local Railroad Industry - Furnish Employment For 224 Men With Payroll Of $154,000
Omaha Elevator Company . . . Eighteenth avenue and Twenty-third street. Capacity: 1,500,000 bushels. Privately owned but on Union Pacific trackage.
Council Bluffs Elevators Play Major Part In Local Railroad Industry - Furnish Employment For 224 Men With Payroll Of $154,000
Butler-Welsh Grain Company . . . Thirty-third street and First avenue. Capacity: 410,000 bushels. Owned by Burlington railroad.
Council Bluffs Elevators Play Major Part In Local Railroad Industry - Furnish Employment For 224 Men With Payroll Of $154,000
Scoular-Bishop Grain Company . . . Thirty-sixth street and First avenue. Capacity: 250,000 bushels. Privately owned but on Burlington, Rock Island and North Western railroad trackage.
Council Bluffs Elevators Play Major Part In Local Railroad Industry - Furnish Employment For 224 Men With Payroll Of $154,000
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company . . . Twenty-sixth avenue and Fourth street. Capacity: 2,000,000 bushels. Owned by Burlington railroad.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--In April of 1881, the Chicago North Western Railroad station was located at Broadway and Sycamore Street, and it looked like this during the historic flood when the depot was used as a boat landing. Note the depot and…
Today...
Today...the brick yard has disappeared and the ground is overgrown with small trees. A grain elevator is at left and the railroad yards in the background, also present in the 1904 picture, are almost obscured by the underbrush.
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Union Elevator
Photograph of the Union Elevator. Foot of Sixteenth Avenue.
Elevator demolition underway
Dynamite Blast Rekindles Images...of the deadly explosion at the Bluffs Elevator Co on April 20, 1982. Paulson Construction Company is razing and removing the remnants of the concrete silos. Nonpareil by Steve Glowacki.
Elevator blast one year later
The fire rages...last year through the Bluffs Elevator Co. near South 23rd Street and Eighteenth Avenue. The blast, accompanied by a giant fireball, could be heard throughout most of the city.
Search for 3 continues
The search goes on...Saturday afternoon at the Bluffs Elevator Co. for the bodies of three missing men. It was the site of Tuesday's grain elevator explosion and fire. Nonpareil Photo by Bob McKeon.
'I thought he was probably blowed away'
A Metal Building...begins to crumble and melt as the intense flames, fueled by the wooden elevators, rage out of control Tuesday at Bluffs Elevator Co. Many cars and trucks parked near the elevators were damaged by debris and flames.
The emergency operation; 'One heck of a job'
Problems With Water Pressure...hampered attempts by Council Bluffs firefighters to control the blaze at the Bluffs Elevator co. Four firefighters attempt to extinguish a car that caught fire nearby. They later hosed down two propane tanks that were…