Inside Buffalo’s Abandoned Grain Elevators URBEX PART 1

This place is so well preserved it’s like a museum. Going inside these abandoned grain elevators Buffalo is both dangerous and fascinating. Some of them are amazingly well preserved and what I found in there surprised me. These grain elevators sit mostly abandoned. They are a monument to the labor force of not only this city, but the entire working class of the United States. But story of these grain elevators is more about the people that worked inside them than it is about the massive hulks that they left behind... They were called the scoopers. Grain Scoopers were once chosen from the lowest of the low to unload grain ships in Buffalo Harbor. For 150 years the work remained the same. It was dirty, dangerous and exhausting but in time, scooping became a job of honor and pride. They were the heart of blue collar America. By the turn of the 21st Century the scoopers faded into history. In the last years many were fourth generation but with automation their labor was no longer needed. Please note: Security is tight here, there are legal tours available at: buffaloriverhistorytours.com/boat-tours/silo-city

[@garyp1672]

Thanks for the video, as a life long resident of WNY, the elevators always interested me. Been on the ground by them, but never entered any of them.

[@forgottenworld]

Me too. I never went inside them before. I will have part II out next month.

[@njunderground82]

Very cool! I've always found elevators interesting. I toured the Gold Medal Flour elevator in Minneapolis and found it fascinating. That one was destroyed by a dust explosion at one point. It was nowhere near as big as this one in Buffalo though!

[@forgottenworld]

They are amazing places.

[@jeanbrandt2624]

You are more knowledgeable about the workings of this elevator than most of the explorers. But you are older than most of them.😂

[@ronron7187]

What year was rubber belts made.???

[@bobwild9995]

Posted 4 days ago??? I'm near Buffalo now, and it's not 5 degrees and no snow on the ground, more like 38-40 degrees this week. Just wanted to make us look bad with the cold and snow??? Interesting how you and the camera guy just walked around, oh and with your drone here and there, No history, and the "eerie" music playing........and then post this evidence of where you were.......🙄

[@forgottenworld]

It was filmed last year. I only just edited it as I was working on another documentary. BTW, I am the camera guy. As for the history, I AGREE. So I did add some anecdotal historical stuff in there (screen graphics etc), but chose for the sake of expediency to post the experience of being in there over a drawn out treatise on its history.

[@Mgtowirishking]

Hey brother thank you for the video and thank you for doing these videos of buffalo ny how you like the snow lol i got arrested the first time going to the grain elevators charged me with trespassing eventually they dropped the charges but the grain elevators are beautiful cant wait for part 2 💯🤟

[@forgottenworld]

Thanks for reaching out. It was fun to film this. And in this case having proper access was really handy. I have part II mostly edited, just need to clean up some of the graphics and sound.

[@sethgerwitz]

What elevator did you get arrested at? Silo city?