Re: [CBQ] Sanding Tower?

[Norm Metcalf <n.metcalf@worldnet.att.net>]

HOL WAGNER wrote:
> It is in fact the concrete sand drying structure that was erected 
> adjacent to the all-steel Ross & White coaling station in 1946.  Though 
> the coaling station was razed in 1961 ( ? ), the sand facility remained 
> standing and in use, providing sand for diesels (via a conventional 
> cylindrical steel sand tower), until the Seventh Street facilities were 
> abandoned.
> Hol Wagner
> 
> 
>     Scott-Diann Eggers wrote:
>      > 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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