[CBQ] Sanding Tower?

[Scott-Diann Eggers <scottdianneggers@yahoo.com>]

I wonder if anyone can help me out with something.  I've been trying to 
research a structure that stood in the C&S 7th Street Yard at Denver.  I was 
located south of the roundhouse opposite the fueling racks.  It is pictured 
here and there throughout Mr. Wagner's book and more prominantly in Ed 
Fulcomer's Colorado & Southern - Southern Division pp38-39,92.  I've seen in in 
several photos at the Denver Public library as well, but most times there are 
no actual reference as to what the structure might be.  I always thought that 
it looked a little like one of the smaller Fairbanks-Morse coaling towers, but 
I have later photos with 70 ton hoppers parked next to the tower, so I thought 
that it must be a drying tower instead.  It lasted well into the 80's when it 
was fianally torn down after the yard was abandoned. Is there anyone who can 
give me more details about this structure; specifically, what its use was, when 
was it built, and perhaps its dimensions?

Thanks and have happy New Year.

Scott Eggers
Waco, Texas


      


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