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Thank you Hol, Tim, Doug, Ken, Steven, Pete, and John for the additional information on sanding facilities and practices. The photos are superb and really help clarify the arrangement of piping, etc. I was especially interested to see that even as late as 1954, the sand hopper still was located inside the Council Bluffs coaling tower. Interested, and I confess a bit relieved, since my personal modeling interests run from roughly post World War I through the mid 1950s; this allows me to avoid building or having a separate sand tower that would not be appropriate for the earlier end of my time frame. I'm wondering, however, would diesels also have been sanded at these coaling towers, or did they get their sand elsewhere? Thanks again, Jonathan Harris __._,_.___ Posted by: jonathanharris@earthlink.net __,_._,___ |