Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1912 — PORTABLE GRAIN-LOADING ELEVATOR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PORTABLE GRAIN-LOADING ELEVATOR

Several portable grain-loading elevators, which may be operated by an electric motor or by a gasoline engine, arer being used with considerable success by an Illinois line, which devotes special attention to the handling of grain on its line extending through the famous corn-belt of Illinois, Regulation steam-road freight cars, operated on the electric line, are placed on sidings, located at frequent intervals, and the farmers bring the grain

for shipment to them in wagons. The first of the elevators used was driven by a gasoline engine, but the lately installed similar machines are operated by electric motors, taking current from the trolley wire. The grain wagons are tilted in the manner shown, and the load feeds into te receiving box of the elevator. A wagonload of grain can be transferred into a car in ten minutes.—Popular Mechanics.

Loading Grain Into Cars by Means of a Portable Elevator.