Seattle's Elevator

Seattle's grain elevator
Detail of equipment in the elevator building

When most people think of Seattle they don't think of grain, but we do have a grain elevator. We don't know if its four million bushel capacity is exceptionally large or just normal sized, but it can fill the largest ships in under twenty-four hours, and it can load two different types of grain simultaneously. It takes in grain by the semi- and train-load from just about every state west of the Missouri and ships it to the Far East as well as Central and South America.

The elevator building

The grain loading arms at the elevator

This page was last updated on 31 December 2001.