Bill
I know what you mean. When I worked in the sheep yards at Montgomery we used
two coal stoves in the office(one in the office one in the locker-room) and the
Super's house had a coal hot water system. You had to keep the fires up in
order to say warm and keep the super happy. The section used the dump truck
from the stock yards to move the coal
The switch at Forest Ave is interesting but then that was the west end of the
siding which ran south of the depot(thru what is now a parking lot)
A lot is gone and it is good to keep the memories alive
sjh
----- Original Message -----
From: clipperw@EarthLink.net
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Digest Number 2474
Steve,
In addition to the depots, some towers had coal sidings to bring coal
to them for heating. The tower at the west end of Downers Grove had
such a siding for many years although, by the '50s, it had disappeared.
The switch for the siding was just west of Forest Ave. There never was
a road into the tower. Tower personnel parked near the turntable and
walked across the triple track mainline to get to the tower. I am sure
other towers and other RR buildings also had provisions to bring
heating coal in where there was no other access.
Bill Barber
On Friday, July 22, 2005, at 06:35 AM, CBQ@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:54:18 -0500
> From: <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Roadnames In A 'Q Coal Train
>
> Paul
>
> Often mines were served by more then one road.
> The Q(BN)use to get coal off the Rock Island at Galva from the south.
> Often we would pick it up with an empty coal train headed west and set
> it out at Mt. Pleasant for the hospital there
> And why HOPPER cars. What about GS gons or just regular gons. Often
> grain elevators had coal houses where some young deserving youngster
> got the chance to unload coal into the house. Farmers would bring
> grain into the elevator and take home coal. Also company coal was
> shipped in gons for unloading at depots along the way.
> As much could be written on the coal mines north of Beardstown as John
> wrote in Bulletin 35 For that matter the same could be said for the
> Iowa Coal mines in a state not noted for coal mining
> sjh
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