It could be receiving dryed grain

When I had my propane plant, many of the large farms in the area had their own grain dryers.  They had their own grain hauling trucks too.  They delivered their dried grain to such a facility.  During grain drying season grain trucks would be lined up at the rail facility.

Of course should a cold snap from an early winter suddenly come on we would have bobtail trucks running 24/7 trying to keep up with demand.  Depending on the severity we might have to borrow bobtails from the Southern part of the state.

Den

Try Birds-eye view

Remote areas typically don't

Remote areas typically don't have the Bird's Eye view.  That's mainly done in larger metro areas because they film it by having a plane fly back and forth over a city.   It would be very costly to do that over an entire state.

Steve S

Limitations of on line views

Yes, you aren't going to find good detailed views of much of rural America.  For example, look at the dates for when the aerial views were taken as opposed to the street level views.  On Google, that delta may be as much as 8 years.  Ironically, they don't even update all the street views.  In one town in northern Kansas, some street views of a grain elevator show certain details and other views as you move along the street don't show the details.  I know of another elevator that some street views show it as standing while others show it as a pile of rubble.  At one time the aerial views of Naval Station Everett (WA) showed, at a certain altitude, a group of vessels in the harbor, but as you zoomed in, those ships disappeared and an aircraft carrier replaced them.  Or, I had one aerial view bookmarked as "train wreck".  When I tried that again, the newest overhead naturally had the train long since cleaned up.

Many small towns in rural America are just plain passed over by Goggle street view.  Or maybe they cover the main drag and ignore the rest.

The resolution of street views has gone up immensely between 2008 and today, so newer street views give much better detail than before.

It's a nice tool.  It has limitations.  It's free.  What I use it for is looking for some details, knowing that you're not going to get everything you want.  But for following along rail lines looking for items, whether it be grain elevators or yards or turntables (or remains) it is nice.  I figure that I'll be taking a trip to Kansas sometime in the next several years and will have my routes planned based on where items I want to photograph are, and working out those via overhead views really helps.  Not that I really want to go to Kansas.  I had half a lifetime there, thank you very much.

Incidentally, as a youngun' I worked at large terminal grain facilities in my home town.

Yup

I used this same idea for an elevator on my layout.

The bins, conveyor and piping are from Rix, while the truck dump structure is leftover parts from Walthers ADM elevators.

Somewhat more complex

Here is one on the Portland & Western RR, just south of Rickreall, OR. I think. It has two sizes of bins, and a horizontal conveyor. This is probably used more for fertilizer or possibly seed, rather than grain. 

Photos are from an aerial railfanning (and survey) flight my father-in-law and I took back when he owned an airplane. Now he's building a railroad.