Re: Loading Gold Concentrate Ouray, CO 1940

Larry Wrote:
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> Great shots!!! Thanks for Sharing...
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> Here is the close up pic I posted on another
> thread.
> Ouray 1940
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> Hand shoveling with wheel-barrel to be the method.
> Would have liked to have found a follow-up shot
> for the next step.

Dollars to doughnuts they are UNloading the concentrate from the car, not loading it. With a strong back (and in those days who didn't have one in Colorado?), one could just heave the rock into the ends of the car with a shovel but unloading it would require some kind of "transfer" like a wheelbarrow, I'd think. My 2¢ on that.

I'd love to know the story behind the open-end car. Notice that the door has a different number (3638) than the body of the car (3339) so this probably wasn't the first mishap (though I bet it was the last) for this piece of rolling stock.

For "concentrate," some of those hunk o' ore look pretty big...