Re: Steamtown photos
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Eric Hansmann
Claus,
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I don't think this Coal & Coke box car has an end door. While there are end door dimensions on the ORER listing, I think these reflect the sizes of the smaller doors on the car side that can be seen in the image. A beehive coke facility often had tracks lower than an area where coke was pulled from the ovens to cool. Here's a great HABS/HAER drawing that illustrates the loading area for a beehive coke operation. http://www.wvexp.com/index.php/File:Bee_Hive_Coke_Oven_3.jpg The smaller doors on the C&C box car would line up well with the area to load coke. Here's the image link again to review. http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-01-21-17/A-235.jpg Eric Hansmann El Paso, TX
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From: STMFC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:STMFC@yahoogroups.com] Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2017 11:52 AM To: STMFC@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [STMFC] Steamtown photos Hi Eric and List members, I had not known the car had an end door. I wonder if perhaps the intention of the side openings was to allow one to load the car with a conveyor from the side (one door each for the left and right hand parts of the car), and the intention for the end door was so one could load the entire car with a conveyor via the end door. You mention the car was far from its home territory - it would seen like these cars would also be very useful for loading long lumber, in which case it might travel a bit further than one might think. The car would need to have any remaining coal or coke thoroughly swept out first, but a work crew could easily handle that jon. Claus Schlund ----- Original Message ----- From: "'Eric Hansmann' eric@hansmanns.org [STMFC]" <STMFC@yahoogroups.com> To: <STMFC@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 12:27 PM Subject: RE: [STMFC] Steamtown photos It could be, Claus. I stumbled upon that image last month, too, and the ------------------------------------ Posted by: "Claus Schlund" <claus@hellgatemodels.com> ------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ Yahoo Groups Links
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