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Earl

June 23, 2020 03:21PM

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They would have set up Rockwood to take care of coal buring locomotives - a coal supply, a way to load it, an ashpit, ect. As an oil burner, 493 needs no watchman. Fill it up, put the fire out, cp the stack, close the dampers, and go home.

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First D&S Trains Out of Rockwood	Jerry474	June 23, 2020 10:58AM
Re: First D&S Trains Out of Rockwood	RichB	June 23, 2020 11:17AM
Re: First D&S Trains Out of Rockwood	drgwk37	June 23, 2020 11:51AM
Re: First D&S Trains Out of Rockwood	Kelly Anderson	June 23, 2020 02:09PM
Re: First D&S Trains Out of Rockwood	mrwalsh85	June 23, 2020 02:13PM
Re: First D&S Trains Out of Rockwood	Jerry474	June 23, 2020 02:54PM
Re: First D&S Trains Out of Rockwood	Earl	June 23, 2020 03:21PM
Re: First D&S Trains Out of Rockwood	Jerry474	June 23, 2020 03:32PM
Re: First D&S Trains Out of Rockwood	hcmusicguy	June 23, 2020 05:43PM

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