Alberta museum seeking donations to help with grain car transportation

May 12, 2025
By Diego Flammini
Assistant Editor, North American Content, Farms.com

The Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Centre needs to move a donated grain car

An Alberta museum is looking for donations to help it display a grain car it received through donations.

The Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Centre Society is asking the public to chip in to help it bring a 1982 hopper to Nanton, Alta.

The car started in Swift Current, Sask., and now sits at a CPKC yard in Calgary.

The plan is to have cranes pick it up and transport the grain car about 80 kilometres to the museum.

The price tag for this is upwards of $18,000. So far about $4,000 has been raised.

One the grain car arrives at the museum it’ll be set down on new tracks.

“We want to make our new display tracks look like they did in the ‘60s and ‘70s,” Leo Wieser, president of the Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Centre, told the Calgary Herald.

The grain car belonged to the federal government.

It’s a signal of a time the government invested in grain movement, Wieser said.

“It was a major part of the government’s investment in the grain industry to get the grain to market,” he told the Herald.

Anyone interested in donating to this cause can visit the museum’s website.

Anyone willing to donate more than $250 are asked to call 403-646-1146.

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My days begin with workin’, Alarm’s at 5 o’clock,
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I can’t worry ‘bout health problems, I can sleep in when I’m gone,

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Oh my, more chores

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Everybody on the farm gettin’ busy,

Everybody on the farm gettin’ busy,
Everybody on the farm gettin’ busy,

I’ve been working pretty stressed but,
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Living out here on the farm, (more chores)

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Oh my, more chores

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Everybody on the farm gettin’ busy,

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Everybody on the farm gettin’ busy,
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They know me and working hard’s got a history,
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