Grain elevators Texhoma, Texas-Oklahoma (1987)
	The unlamented Senator Roman Hruska, once dubbed the stupidest person in Congress, once interrupted a Senate Defense Appropriations Committee meeting with a savage remark that "If you're going to talk about silos, you should go talk to the Agriculture Committee." Given that, these are not silos (which are local storage devices at each farm), but grain elevators, which hold a far larger amount of grain (generally wheat, or corn, or almost anything else that needs dry storage). They lie along railroad routes, and form the economic lifeline of American rural communities.
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