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Here is some film of the elevators I now attend to... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGnGLs6sna0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGnGLs6sna0</a>    were you fooled? Here it is again. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KBqzd2XUL0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KBqzd2XUL0</a>   ( There is a larger CO-OP central terminal elsewhere on the layout....seen in other videos.)   I was born in a six-room hospital in a small town in central Alberta, almost within spitting distance of the grain elevator at which my father worked.  He was a grain buyer for a number of years in his early career (before becoming a graphic artist, printer, newspaperman and commercial fisherman.) I distinctly remember being in the elevators often.  I caught hell for crossing the mainline to visit Dad on my own when I was four years old. I am searching for a sound file of the distinct low moaning, creaking and wind effects always present in the cavernous interior of the elevators.....I will add these to my ambient sound files on the layout.  So far no luck.  I will have to make my own recordings one day when I travel back to the prairies from the coast. Here am I in 1956 or so with my father's elevator in the background in New Sarepta, Alberta to which we moved after.  Grain companies always had rental housing in the small communities for the grain buyers.  I remember the day my mother took this photo as she missed the great black steam locomotive that pulled past behind us.....probably a CN Sante Fe class heading to Edmonton. <img src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/NewSarepta1a_zps85554745.jpg" alt=" " />   Here is a shot of the elevator string at Amisk, Alberta about 1959.  My father worked for the Alberta Wheat Pool as a grain buyer in the elevator in the central position.  None of these type elevators survive in the small towns I mention.  <img src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/amisk1_zps63ccf3dd.jpg" alt=" " />
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