Pioneer Elevator - Vulcan, AB
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member T0SHEA
N 50° 22.972 W 113° 14.444
12U E 340699 N 5583601
This is the second of a pair of concrete elevators just south of Vulcan. This one is the more southerly of the two and is about a mile south of town.
Waymark Code: WMMJCK
Location: Alberta, Canada
Date Posted: 09/28/2014
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member scrambler390
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In case you hadn't realized it, Vulcan is also the name of Spock's (Star Trek) home planet, and the town of Vulcan has capitalized on this happy coincidence with a Star Trek Museum and visitor centre, a large mockup of the Starship Enterprise and various other Star Trek paraphernalia scattered about the town. It even hosts annual Star Trek festivals and conventions.

Vulcan was famous not only for the quality of its wheat, some of the best in the world, but for its production. Over many years Vulcan has been the largest single shipping point of wheat in the world. As a result, it also had the longest Elevator Row on the prairies, with nine elevators by 1924, and twelve by 1956. Pictures of Vulcan's Elevator Row have been distributed world wide.

Operated by Richardson Pioneer, a company over 150 years old, this elevator is substantially larger than its mate to the north, the Parrish & Heimbecker, and would hold a million or more bushels of grain.
Currently used as a grain elevator: yes

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