Etzikom Elevator - Etzikom. AB
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N 49° 28.739 W 111° 07.092
12U E 491437 N 5480710
This is the last elevator remaining in the tiny hamlet of Etzikom, 25 km. east of Foremost, AB and 132 km. southeast of Lethbridge, on Highway 61, known as the Red Coat Trail.
Waymark Code: WMMJGJ
Location: Alberta, Canada
Date Posted: 09/28/2014
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Etzikom seems to be pretty much in the middle of nowhere. There's not much going on in that town anymore, though they do have a really nice museum, with a large windmill collection adjacent.
This, the last and only elevator in town, was built in 1988 by the Alberta Wheat Pool. It became an Agricore, then a Viterra elevator with mergers of the Alberta and Manitoba Pools, followed by a buyout by the Sask. Pool. Wood cribbed and steel clad, it is representative of elevators built at the time. It's now in private hands, probably those of a local farmer, and the railroad no longer passes by as the tracks have been pulled up, probably in the '90s.
