The following description is from 1941.
The Port of Albany grain elevator, which is located in the port commission area on the west side of the Hudson River, was constructed by the port commission and is leased for operation to the Cargill Grain Co., Inc.
It is of concrete construction, having a storage capacity of 13,500,000 bushels, and is equipped with facilities for rapid handling. A battery of eight pneumatic marine legs capable of moving 20,000 bushels an hour can be employed in the unloading of a vessel at one time.
There are two groups of loading spouts on the edge of the wharf, with two spouts to each group, as well as a gallery with six spouts, making a total of 10 spouts by which vessels can be loaded from the elevator at the rate of 100,000 bushels an hour. Surge tanks are provided to control the flow of grain.
The elevator is equipped with a standard car dumper, a power shovel, and units for weighing, cleaning, washing, drying, and clipping. Grain is transferred from car to elevator at the rate of 10 cars per hour.
The elevator is served by 11 tracks, which have a capacity for 120 cars, connecting with the Delaware & Hudson and the New York Central railroads.
Situated close to the grain elevator is a feed mill operated by the Cooperative Grange League Federation, which is of brick and concrete construction and has a storage capacity of 7,000 tons of grain and feed.
[Cooperative Grange League Federation was a farmer owned cooperative formed by The Grange, The Dairymen’s League, and Farm Bureau Federation in about 1920; the GLF was one of three cooperatives that created AGWAY in 1964.]It is equipped with a pneumatic marine leg handling 2,500 bushels of grain an hour, two car pits with power shovels having a capacity of 1 to 2 cars per hour, and a car-loading system which can handle 50 cars of sacked feed per day, as well as cleaning and mixing units.
The mill is also connected with the grain elevator for direct transfer of grains from elevator to mill when necessary. The mill is connected with the Delaware & Hudson and New York Central railroads and has five tracks which have a capacity for 26 cars.
Read more about the history of the Port of Albany.
This essay was excerpted from Port and Terminal Facilities at the Ports on the Upper Hudson River, 1941 (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942) and annotated by John Warren.
Photo: The 13,500,000 bushel grain elevator at the Port of Albany in 1941.
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