Painted Silo Murals Along the South Omaha Trail

Grain elevator silos like these once stored corn and soybeans shipped through Omaha's rail and river networks, a trade that shaped the city's South Omaha industrial corridor through much of the 20th century. Many of the region's concrete elevators were built in the early 1900s to serve the Union Stockyards and surrounding grain trade, and several still stand today even after their industrial use ended. The murals painted along the silo bases, including lettering that spells "Omaha," are part of a broader effort to repurpose the structures as public art rather than demolish them. The adjacent trail follows a former rail corridor and now connects South Omaha neighborhoods for pedestrian and bicycle use.

Photo taken in February 2017.