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You don't have to kitba***he Walthers one they make add-on silos for it. The Walthers elevator is compressed to fit on most of the smaller home layouts. Cargill's elevator in Milwaukee Wi, size each silo was 100 ft. high and the headhouse towered above the silos, coming in at 225ft. high. Has you can see even in HO scale building this to scale would end up being larger then a small layout. <br /> Also has far as car types loaded. We loaded 40ft. boxcars until about 1979. The hoppers that are made by Athearn these are the PS 55ft hoppers came out in right about 1968, their center flow hoppers, came out at about 1969- 78. Roundhouse makes a FMC corvered hopper, these didn't come out until 1978-80. Pullman Standard is on about the 4th new hopper type. <br /> Chuck Hitchcock has a great story in the 2006 MR Planning mag. that just came out,its about switching Santa Fe's elev "A" which just happens to be in Kansas City.
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