Feed storage? Art instalment? Fascinating shot!
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Indeed, if we'd seen them buried at angles similar to the pyramid at Cheops I'd have loved to have read about the "hopper car ranch". As it is, their being in apparent perpetual service to the Muleshoe Bean and Pea Company is great enough.
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Hard to believe that there is only one other shot of this on RP. Very interesting!
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| Posted by Andrew on December 31, 2012 | |
Would this not be for storage before being loaded into hoppers of some kind? There looks like elevators for filling the hoppers from perhaps farm trailers and when enough is in the storage hoppers, a few cars could then be loaded. Perhaps the name Muleshoe Bean and Pea Co. It would make an interesting item for our model railway.
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I AGREE with Andrew, this (in a reduced size ie fewer hoppers ) would make an interesting modeling project. With a few modifications it would seem the concept would also work for coal or cement powder.
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Grain elevators going sideways instead of up. Interesting use of out of date hoppers.
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Texans are very proud of the stuff they put up on stilts. I've seen U-Hauls on a stick. Harley's On a Stick. Lawnmowers and Golf Carts on a stick. Revolving boats on a stick, semi trucks and what not. I've got quite a collection of them. Hoping the owners of RP.net will create a third website, "Stuffonastick.net".
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I count 70 hoppers from the satellite picture. That's a unit train's worth and a lot of pea! Thanks for posting.
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| Posted by on January 5, 2013 | |
Very similar to the Espigueiros used in N. Portugal, just on a larger scale. In their case, they were
elevated to deny access to rodents looking for grain to eat. It is nice to see some 4427s have survived.
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| Posted by on January 2, 2014 | |
That must have been an interesting, and possibly complex operation to put them on stilts like that, as there are 70 of them all together.
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Never in my mind would I picture hoppers on stilts in real life or in a photo.
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