Lake and Rail Elevator - Table of Contents
2007 photos - Exterior and Interior
Lake and Rail Elevator
120 Childs Street, Buffalo, NY
- Main house - Built 1927
- Construction cost $300,000.00 ($3,481,865.28 in the year 2006)
- North annexes - permits filed over the next 3 years
- Northwest annex features Buffalo's tallest (150') nest of grain bins
- Built by International Milling which built a concrete mill first
- Designer: probably Jones Hettelsater Construction Co. of Kansas City, Missouri
- Elevator makes a 90 degree turn following the bend in the Buffalo River
- Basement has full bin slab and basement beams
- Slip formed bins (cement forms slowly jacked up with additional cement constantly added around the clock for about two weeks until the concrete elevator silos/bins were complete.
- 30 main bins
- 2 mobile marine towers ("marine legs") on Buffalo River side designed and erected by Monarch Engineering Co. of Buffalo
- Produced Robin Hood flour
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First floor of the elevator |
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Conveyor belt for moving grain |
Grain conveyor belt |
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Marine leg |
Marine leg |
Marine leg |
Marine leg |
One of two mobile "marine legs" |
Technology has rendered the marine legs useless. |
Note rails where the "leg" could by moved sideways |
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Marine leg wheels on rails |
End of the rails |
Don Gavin, Manager of Elevator Operations |
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Side view: The leg's "buckets" are attached to a conveyor belt in the "loose leg" |
Back view: The leg's "buckets" attached to a conveyor belt in the "loose leg" |
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Spare plastic "buckets" |
Grain being dumped into the elevator would be weighed on a scale like this every 2,000 pounds or so. |
Scale closeup |
"Scooper's" shovel that would be used to shovel grain from the corners of the hold |
Looking across the Buffalo River |