Re: The C&S Pine Grove Sandhouse.

Posted by Jim Courtney on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/The-C-S-Coal-Chutes-Pine-Como-Dickey-Pitkin-and-almost-Breckenridge-tp4269p4359.html

As to your question about the engine watchman vs hostler, I assume he was up and about watching the engines, while the engine crew was off duty.  If there was a hostler and multiple coal shovelers at Pine at the TOTC, perhaps they all bunked in the flat roofed addition to the back of the depot.

As to what I think is a depot privy, that you describe as a double phone booth, consider the depot privy at Pitkin also taken in 1910:

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll21/id/11068/rv/singleitem/rec/108


Not too far off thread, there was a coal chute just to the right, in Pitkin.  Notice that the "Pitkin Privy" is about the same size as the little structure at Pine, is painted to match the depot, and has two doors, kind'a like a "doubled phone booth".  Can't tell if has a window though.

Is there a rule in New Zealand that outhouses can't have windows??