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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by Mookie</i> <br /><br />I lied - I found another whole list of notes! <br /> <br />1....we have little houses where towers used to be. Carling Tower, Hall Tower <br />where the well, I am not sure just what they did. They sat in their really tall towers and watched trains all day! So there is part 1. And part 2 is now that we have those little white sheds instead, and MOW comes over every so often and digs around in them. What are they doing in there for so long on a really hot summer day! Or a really cold winter day. Or any day! <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />3.... bottom dump - coal cars - I understand the concept - give the Mook a break. But when they dump do they neatly dump into a slot, a huge holding tank under the tracks, are they suspended off the rails when they dump, what about coal dust (Yuk) and what about the coal that scatters - if it does - and does it build up and have to be cleaned up before the next car goes thru. And can they dump several at one time or only one at a time. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Mookie <br />[/quote]Glad to help, Madam Da Mook. Bottom dump cars are sometimes used to spread ballast with a crosstie sliding under the wheels to keep it even with the rail tops. Also, bottom dumps would occasionally open in switching it they coupled too hard. You can visualize that, can't you Mook? Those towers, in an earlier age, were the locations of guys who made the nice green signals red so we couldn't move. Then we'd have to go to the lineside telephone and call these same guys to ask why the signal was red.
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