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CN coaling tower

Abandoned Ghost Town in Chippewas Of Rama First Nation, Ontario

Apr 16 2012

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View from track side.
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Looking down CN main line.
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Looking up from location of siding that brought loaded hopper cars to tower.
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All filled in now, this raised area is where the hopper cars dumped their loads to fill coaling tower. What looks like an access road is where railway siding used to be.
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Grating still visible in places where coal loads were dumped.
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After being dumped from hopper cars, coal travelled to this conveyor and up to top of tower.
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Scanned from Ian Wilson's book Steam through Northern Ontario showing Washago coaling tower when it was still active. In photo you can see raised siding that ran beneath coaling tower which was for incoming hopper cars loaded with coal. In plan drawing you can see where siding ran back to main li
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Ah, zut! Maybe not the best looking welds on door but enough to keep one out of the conveyor tower.......
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Was able to get camera lens into one of the openings in side of tower for a look at the chain and bucket conveyor which took coal up.
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Top of conveyor, coal then travelled across and down into concrete storage bin. This photo taken with telephoto lens.
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When in service a chute would have been installed here, coal fed by gravity into locomotive tenders.
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Portion of acess ladder, rest of it long removed.
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Where power was fed to run conveyor motors.
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Conduit leading down to conveyor motors, disconnected long ago.
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