Grain, predominately wheat, was the traffic that paid the Great Northern's bills, and that grain was loaded into box cars at country elevators.
Finally, after about a year's development work, and a series of photos taken by Darin Nelson, we have an accurate model of the 20,000 bushel elevator built in 1913 at Touhey WA. Elevators of this basic design existed at virtually every Manitoba and Great Northern station in Minnesota west of Willmar at St. Cloud, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana east of the Rocky Mountains, and eastern Washington. If you model the Great Northern in any of these areas you need one, or more, of these. At some stations multiple elevators extended along the entire length of the industry track, typically spaced five or six car lengths apart.
The Touhey elevator is typical of the breed found all over the GN. If you model a country station in the grain growing region of any of these states, this elevator is a great addition!