Leo--was the sand in box cars bagged or loaded loose like grain?
Bob Herrick
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, qutlx1@... wrote:
>
> I also seem to recall pictures of gons full of sand being shovelled into
> the sand bin at various roundhouses.
>
> The key to engine sand was to dry it out in the sand house before loading
> it into the sand boxes on the engines.
>
> Another of those not so nice sides of railroading is laying on the ROW in
> snow or a rain storm with a piece of wire trying to get stuck sanders to
> flow.
>
> Leo Phillipp
> Company service sand was moved in company service box cars. It was also
> used for other purposes in addition to locomotive sanding. As an example....
> sanding ice coated switching leads after a sleet storm.
>
> One of the not so pleasant sides of railroading.
>
> In later years some of the sand hoppers were converted for company service
> and then used to move engine sand. They were painted an attractive company
> service orange and black scheme.
>
> Leo Phillipp
> I was looking at the drawings of the Eola coal chute in Mainline Modeler and
> wondered about the type of car used to deliver locomotive sand to either the
> coal chutes or more modern sanding towers. Would they have been company cars;
> box, gon or hopper? Know of any photos?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob Herrick
>
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