Some more trolleys....C&G, CG&W, H&F, and others....

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Wouldn't it have been easier just to dump the coal in rather than make a cylindrical pile at one end??

Maybe it was neater, somehow, for some reason?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Wouldn't it have been easier just to dump the coal in rather than make a cylindrical pile at one end??

Could. Could also drop it down a chute into where it might be transported thereafter to the boilers. Leaving it in a pile outside to be moved yet again seems like something somebody with a shovel would have to deal with later. Coal delivered to my grandparent's was done that way - down the chute into the bin in the basement....

[John Webster]

That coal trolley is cool. Perhaps the upper doors are for loading from a facility that already existed when the trolley was built.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

That coal trolley is cool. Perhaps the upper doors are for loading from a facility that already existed when the trolley was built.

Also quite possible.....

[Tom Dempsey]

CommercialCoalHouseRear.jpg

[Rufus T. Firefly]

CommercialCoalHouseRear.jpg

Nice - any pics of the front?

[Tom Dempsey]

That's a picture from Crystal Rivers Model's website, Martin. That kit is a dead ringer for the old coal siding building on the NP line in Colfax Washington next to the original depot. I just thought folks would want to know why the high doors in the gondola body. Besides, there's no trains on the front side of the building, so who cares what it looks like.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

That's a picture from Crystal Rivers Model's website, Martin. That kit is a dead ringer for the old coal siding building on the NP line in Colfax Washington next to the original depot. I just thought folks would want to know why the high doors in the gondola body. Besides, there's no trains on the front side of the building, so who cares what it looks like.

Thanks! Thought I'd seen that somewhere before.....and if I can see the front, I can build it,

[healey36]

WMRR/H&F interchange at Thurmont, Maryland:

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Pretty cool - the trolley traveling right out to the station; looks good, for any layout touching on that interest or circa, huh.
Murph

[Rufus T. Firefly]

PRT Coal Motor 2624....

[Rufus T. Firefly]

PRT Ash Motor..........

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Can you imagine the dust and dirt that poor motorman was exposed to and inundated with, constantly!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Can you imagine the dust and dirt that poor motorman was exposed to and inundated with, constantly!

I'd like to see the guy pulling the actuating lever on those side dump doors after the ash cam pouring out!

Then again, it was a job........

[Rufus T. Firefly]

While a good distance off from the majority here, Eastern Michigan Rwy had a wooden steeple cab.....