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In its heyday , the town boomed with banks , hotels , grain elevators , a lumber yard , newspaper , train depot — even a dance hall . Along with the skyscrapers , the grain elevators , the suspension bridges , and the huge transport planes , they are among the most aesthetically satisfying products of technology-and of all these objects they are the only ones which the average citizen can own . For some businesses , particularly grain elevators , the loss of rail service may result in the loss of a market due to greatly increased transportation costs . One year , we found remnants of the early twentieth century scattered through Wharton County - - aging grain elevators , a fire station with a 1936 fire truck , and the roadside kitsch of the abandoned TeePee Motel . The Yellowstone River flows unnoted on the outskirts of town , beyond the grain elevators , the railroad switching yards and oil refineries . Language bludgeons the reader from every direction , on the sides of boxcars , from church lawns , neon advertisements , newspapers , television , radio , grain elevators , the sides of barns . So , you can see grain elevators , insurance companies and associations and so forth representing a broad array of private and public stakeholders in risk management education . A case study of Eastern Washington grain transportation included modal use and marketing characteristics of farm producers and grain elevators , a mathematical spatial equilibrium model reflecting commodity flows , alternative model scenarios reflecting shipper strategies and policy changes and an evaluation of the multimodal response and system performance under the alternative models . In the booming years , Ogallah ’ s businesses included general stores , grocery stores , grain elevators , a school , a bank , and a creamery .