Re: The C&S Coal Chutes: Four bins? Six Bins? Eight Bins? Twelve Bins?

Posted by Jim Courtney on Dec 18, 2015; 12:46am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/The-C-S-Coal-Chutes-Pine-Como-Dickey-Pitkin-and-almost-Breckenridge-tp4269p4274.html

Thanks for the links, Chris.

As for: Jim, your arrows in the early Pine photo appear to be pointing to Boxcars on the adjacent track to me.  It would be safe to assume the coaling platform was originally along the lines of the type at Hancock(and others).   Well, I agree with you.  If the yellow arrow "structure" was a coal bin, it seems too far west and not opposite the depot.  The coaling structure in all the other photos is opposite and just a smidgin to the east of the depot.

Truth is, until I read Mac Poor's statement that the Schwanders coal chutes were built in 1884, I would never have looked for a coaling chute in an 1880s photo of Pine--I've always thought of the C&S coaling trestles as TOTC buildings.  Evidently, that's not true.

I've changed the title of this thread to that of a generic C&S coaling trestle discussion.  So let's post as many photos of these neat creatures here as we can, both prototype and model.  

That will give Mike Trent an excuse to post more photos of his beautiful O scale Dickey trestle and chutes.  And it looks to me that Don Pacetti has built a very nice HOn3 model of the Como coaling bins.  Perhaps he could offer us some close-ups?

And Chris, do you have photos of your 1985 model of the Como coal bins??  If so, post them here as well, I'd love to see them.

I'll start:

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/43672

Como coal bins, April 11, 1937.  Otto Perry


http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/5109/rec/25

Como coal bins from the east, c1929