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Passing the grain elevators in Legend
– sadly none of these elevators are still standing
and would operate both elevators until closing them in 1998.The annex of the UGG elevator was sold to a farmer south of Nemiscam after the elevators closed, and it was relocated to the farm where it sits abandoned to this day.The author had a chance to peek inside the annex and it included a separate man lift system!
After Legend was the town of Foremost, where a modest row of grain eleva-
tors was in operation. From the west working our way east was a 1983 AWP Buffalo Sloped Bin 2000 grain elevator (closed in 2001, sold to local farmer,
and then sold to new short line opera- tor Forty Mile Rail), a 1915 Lake of the Woods Milling elevator (sold to AWP in 1960 and then to a local farmer in 2001), a 1954 AWP elevator, and a 1917 UGG elevator that was twinned with a smaller
elevator. The UGG elevator was closed after the harvest season in 2001 and demolished in early 2002.
After Foremost, the next siding was Nemiscam or Nemiskam. At one time there were four elevators here; a 1917 UGG that was closed in 1982, two AWP elevators (1928 & 1969), and a 1915 Alberta Pacific Grain that was sold to UGG in 1969 and operated until closing in 1988.These remaining AWP weath- ered elevators closed in 1997.
After Nemiscam, the track turned slight- ly southeast towards Etzikom, where four elevators were remaining; a newly built steel AWP elevator, a set of twinned elevators (1928 AWP & 1954 AWP),
and a 1917 UGG elevator that closed in 1995.The steel AWP design is a unique
Looking back from the locomotive cab towards the Lake of the Woods Milling elevator and the Buffalo Sloped Bin 2000 grain elevator in Foremost
Passing the grain elevators in Nemiskam Heading through Foremost, the far elevators in the background were demolished the or Nemiscam – none of these elevators
Alberta Wheat Pool elevator still stands
still stand
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