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Re: Fwd: [CBQ] Locomotive Sand Delivery

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Subject: Re: Fwd: [CBQ] Locomotive Sand Delivery
From: herrick@krausonline.com
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:37:43 -0000
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Thanks, Leo.

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, qutlx1@... wrote:
>
> Bob,
>  
> The few I was involved with had the sand bulk loaded into them and unloaded 
>  by shovelling.
>  
> Leo Phillipp
> 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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