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Yes Memories! We had a cook stove in our kitchen on the farm which I wanted to keep and had it stashed away till no space forced me to take it to Goshen, Ind and sell it. The first school I went to after our move to Aurora was Beaupre on the east side of Aurora and it had man hole covers in the large concrete paved parking lot on the west side of the building which was actually the roof of the coal storage room for the boiler room. The coal was chuted from above and it kept a fireman busy three shifts a day every day to keep the building warm with the hot water heaters. In High School while in Boy Scouts one spring the council held a spring camporee along Indian Creek just east of Plano(the creek that has the 1904 Concrete arch railroad bridge) and a cabin on the property
which was the headquarters had an old cook stove in it and none of the other scouts could get a fire going in it till I showed them how. The office at the Sheepyard in Montgomery had two potbelly stoves one in the office the other in the locker room and to stay warm we had to keep a fire going in them and that was in the late 60's. While in the service in beautiful LA(not Calif. but Lower Alabama) the only heat in the barracks was the huge old Octopus( still the water in the butt cans would freeze) and its little brother in the corner was a coal fired hot water heater. Mine was the only barracks in our company that had hot water. Sure wish I could put the fireplace in the new house but the budget just will not stretch that far for now.
Better get back to work before my wife finds out I took a break Steve in SC From: "qutlx1@aol.com" <qutlx1@aol.com> To: cbq@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tue, February 28, 2012 5:35:15 PM Subject: Fwd: [CBQ] Re:Coal Furnace Note: Forwarded message is attached.
Ah the memories. My parents house was coal furnace heated until the early
60s. Watch for an upcoming Zephyr article on how my Dad and Uncle put my brother
and I to work for a couple heating seasons reducing the coal bill with "Free
Fuel from the RR". No it wasnt coal from the RR.
I think everyone will enjoy the story.
Leo Phillipp
Ps-As a kid I shoveled snow for many years using a BR marked coal scoop. In
fact I grew to love that scoop so much I even sand blasted and painted it. But
then I dont know what happened to it. Seem to recall it was a
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