You might look in old Locomotive Encylopedias, as manufactures took large
ads in them, often with photos or drawings of their products. I don't know
if there was a seperate book or journal for shop men. C&NW Historical
Society did put out a nice two volume set on support facililties, with great
photographs.
Pat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nelson Moyer" <ku0a@mchsi.com>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 12:09 PM
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Re: Burlington Sand Tower Question
> Service facility photos appear to be rare. I suspect that the business of
> servicing locomotives didn't lend itself to amateur photography (access
> being the chief constraint), and the railroads apparently didn't consider
> service facilities of sufficient glamour to feature them in promotional
> materials. The only photos may be in private collections of family members
> whose relatives worked in the service facilities. I have a couple of
> photos
> of a great uncle in a roundhouse with some of his coworkers, but that was
> in
> Florida in the late 1920a and early 1930s, and the focus was on the
> people,
> not the facilities.
>
> Sand tower photos when it was still in use are apparently rare. BB#23 has
> a
> few pictures of the sand tower. Page 101 shows the sand tower behind 9120
> in
> 1953. Page 102 shows the sand tower behind the coal bin in 1950. Page 104
> shows its placement relative to the coal bin. This photo shows a ladder to
> a
> platform, but the top of the ladder isn't in the picture. Page 121 has
> the
> tower and part of the brick sand drying house, but not enough is shown to
> model either structure. The coal bin was in use in 1925, but I haven't
> found
> any pictures of the sand tower before the early 1950s. None of these
> photos
> are indexed in Rupert's document, probably because they are incidental to
> the main content of the photos. Maybe this discussion will induce someone
> holding additional photos to come forward.
>
> Since I haven't gotten any operational information from this group, I
> posted
> the photos and questions to the RPM group, hoping somebody could help
> identify the purpose of the unconnected pipes. It's not clear from
> available
> photos whether or not the sand tower served tracks on both sides, but
> since
> the coal tower apparently did, I would expect the sand tower to do so as
> well. That would explain the three way splitter at the bottom of the tank,
> but how the vertical extension of that splitter was used remains a
> mystery,
> as does the purpose of the unconnected pipe in the wing-shaped cradle
> above
> the outlet pipe.
>
> Nelson Moyer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> bigbearoak
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 9:46 AM
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [CBQ] Re: Burlington Sand Tower Question
>
> Thanks, Nelson. It sounds like a great subject for a Zephyr article (hint,
> hint). I've felt frustrated not to have this basic part of a servicing
> facility available. In HO scale, at least, there have been kits and built
> models for several different Burlington water towers, coaling towers,
> depots, and other company buildings, including handcar shed, section
> house,
> even dry closest. But for sand houses, I've never seen anything, not even
> a
> plan (not for the Q anyway; there have been kits for e.g., the D&RGW
> narrow
> gauge, Colorado Midland, and others).
>
> Do you know the age of that tower you photographed? What I really want to
> know is about when the 'modern' metal cylinder design replaced the old
> saltbox sand houses you see in early 20th-c. photos.
>
> Thanks again, and happy modeling!
> Jonathan
>
> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Nelson Moyer" <ku0a@...> wrote:
>>
>> I posted five close-up photos of the sand tower in Burlington. Photos of
>> the whole tower are in my Burlington Depot Album. I need to know more
> about
>> how the tower operated, i.e. which is the fill pipe and which is the
>> delivery pipe. As the tower sits now, a hose is connected to the long
>> pipe
>> extending from the tower. That pipe comes out of the center of the tank
>> at
>> the bottom with a three-way splitter, however only one of the splits is
>> connected. Above the connected pipe is a cradle with another pipe that
>> isn't connected to anything. What was that pipe for? Two weights are on
>> slide rods and markers are on one of the two rods in the earlier photos.
>> Those markers don't appear in recent photos, so apparently they were
> removed
>> when the tower was repainted. What did the markers indicate, sand level?
>> What were the pulley cables connected to besides the weights? There
> appears
>> to be a vent in the top of the tank. How was it constructed and used? I
>> assume there was s drying house and a air pressure system to deliver sand
> to
>> the tower, but I've never seen any pictures of the drying house.
>>
>>
>>
>> I measured the tower, and I've drawn a preliminary set of HO scale plans
> for
>> a model. Now I need to know how to make the detail parts and connect the
>> pipes.
>>
>>
>>
>> Nelson Moyer
>>
>
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