Fresh out of HS in 1971, I worked at a local terminal grain elevator in Salina, KS.  Capacity, around 10 million bushels.  At that time, this elevator did a "boxcar" business of receiving grain by rail.  I didn't see many covered hoppers, but I saw tons of boxcars.  For several years I have tried to remember, let alone find, an example of how the grain was extracted from the boxcars.  I remembered that there was a twin screw auger that was inserted into the boxcar, and it traveled on rails, but beyond that, nothing.

Just finished up a scratchbuilt timber and steel trestle. 4 days worth of work, not too bad!

I am planning to include a grocery distributor on my under construction Maine Central layout. I would love some good photos of prototype or model structures--especially those with multiple loading doors. I know about the Walthers kit which is a great model, but I'd love to consider other designs. I'm modeling the 1950's so nothing too modern. Can anyone give me some inspiration? Thanks!

My prototype had a small 3 track coach just South of the Centralia Passenger depot.  They had a boiler plant that provided steam heat to the passenger depot, the freight house and connections in the coach yard for layover passenger cars.