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Dear SparrowHawk, Sanding towers look usually like pipes, but sometimes there is a sandhouse next to it, where wet sand, especially from a nearby river, would be dried for use in the locomoitves. Ash pits are a different story. Often they looked like a traditional locomotive "pit" with one side open to remove the ashes. Sometimes, especially on short lines, the ashes would litteraly be dumped by the side of the track, and would only be removed when the pile got to high. I would get the Kalmbach book for the ash pits. See you around the forum, Daniel P.S. You've been a member for nearly two years and this is your first posting?[:)] Oh well, to each his own.[8D][:D]
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