Touhey Grain Elevator - HO

This country elevator is small enough to fit any layout and tall enough to dominate other structures in the immediate area. It is an accurate model of the 20,000-bushel elevator built at Touhey, seven miles from the end of the Mansfield branch on the top of Washington’s Columbia Plateau in 1913, four years after the railroad was built. Touhey is a crib style elevator, a design dating to the 1880s. In crib style of construction 2”x8”, 2”x6”, or 2”x4” boards are laid flat with overlapped the joints and are spiked firmly to create external and internal walls. Our model includes the tall elevator structure, a covered scale and unloading pit under a shed on the side away from the track, with a machinery shed behind the scale and pit. Dimensions: 12 inches long over ends of ramps, 7 inches deep, 8 3/4 inches tall. Grain elevators were a crucial infrastructure element of any prairie farming community. Grain, predominately wheat, paid the GN’s bills for decades. Wheat originated from that part