These grain elevators use to be common place structures in most towns all over western Canada’s prairie provinces. This one is located in Carstairs Alberta Canada, about a 30 minute drive north of Calgary. They were a place where farmers would bring their grains by truck, to be weighed, dumped into a pit, and carried up into the tower to be stored until picked up by train.

They are being replaced with modern concrete structures, in centralized locations. There are not many of these left anymore. Some towns are saving these buildings from demolition, and turning them into museums.