# Whiskey Gap elevators and the last grain train

**From [Heritage of the High Country: A History of Del Bonita and Surrounding Districts](/books#heritage-of-the-high-country) (Del Bonita Historical Society, 1981), printed p. 48.**

## Photograph date

August 1978. The photograph caption on printed page 48 explicitly dates the scene to August 1978.

## Printed caption

Whiskey Gap elevators taken in August 1978. This was the last train coming to Whiskey Gap to take out grain. On October 25, 1978, they started taking up the railroad track.

## Source and credit

From Heritage of the High Country: A History of Del Bonita and Surrounding Districts (Del Bonita Historical Society, 1981), p. 48. Digitized book: University of Calgary, Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections.

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Printed page 48; PDF scan page 62 of 626. ISBN 0-88925-190-8.

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