Abstract: An elevating scraper elevator includes a main frame having drive and idler sprockets mounted at its opposite ends and an endless conveyor passing about the frame and meshed with the drive and idler sprockets. The drive sprockets are fixed to opposite end portions of a tubular drive shaft section which is rotatably mounted on the main frame. Projecting axially into the tubular drive shaft section is a solid drive shaft section having one end fixed to the interior of the tubular drive shaft section and having its other end connected to the output shaft of a motor and gear reduction means that is supported by the main frame.