[CBQ] Cinders ?

["Leo Phillipp via Groups.Io" <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io>]

Steam locos generated massive volumes of cinders. We are all familiar with 
cinder pits and the ever present Gons that the cinders were loaded into. We 
also know the cinders were used as fill and for ballast on branches, passing 
tracks and in yards.

What I'm wondering about is how did that get done ? I mean in the dead of 
winter Gons full of cinders didn't get spread for ballast or fills as that work 
was seasonal. Where did cinders get staged until needed ? How did the section 
foreman or road master go about requesting cinders, who decided who got what? 
Were cinders kept local by each Division or did they get shipped long distances 
?

Oh and what about all those cinders from power and heating plants all over the 
system ?

Leo Phillipp

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