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Subject: Fw: [BRHSlist] Sterling Coaling Facility
From: "internet.usinet.metcalf" <metcalf@a...>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 07:09:52 -0600
Reply-to: "internet.usinet.metcalf" <metcalf@a...>
----- Original Message -----
Friday, June 07, 2002 6:30 AM
Subject: RE: [BRHSlist] Sterling Coaling Facility


> Norm:
>
> You can forward this reply:
>
> The 24-pocket tipple/cart coaling facility built at Sterling in 1906 was
not
> replaced with a newer one; it was simply removed after the entire Sterling
> Division became an oil-burning division.
>
> Hol Wagner
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Florian Griessenboeck <florian@v...>
> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 8:30 AM
> Subject: [BRHSlist] Sterling Coaling Facility
>
>
> > Hi list!
> >
> > I could use some help this time: What kind of coaling facility could be
> > found in STERLING, COLORADO in the steam era (1940s)? I found that
little
> > prarie city a very rewarding subject to model and am now collecting all
> the
> > information. No problem to do that with that excellent book of Sterling
> > which most of you might know very well, but there is just no photo of
the
> > Burlington coal dock in it. Just the old wooden trestle on page 55 and
its
> > location on one of these useful maps. But what replaced it someday? Or
was
> > it replaced at all - most of the locos in later years burned oil...
> >
> > Thank you very much for your replies, gentelmen.
> > Regards, Florian Griessenboeck



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