Re: Reefer Ice supply
| August 19, 2010 04:06PM |
trainrider47 Wrote:
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> I don't see an elevated platform in the photo and
> nobody has mentioned any on the NG. How was the
> ice was brought up to the car roof top for loading
> into the bunkers? Were the ice blocks hand
> carried up, one at a time, or was a ramp laid
> against the side of the car and the blocks pulled
> up or pushed up?
I just looked it up - in 1922-23 Durango had a 1,000 Ton ice facility with an 80 ft. platform. 1,000 tons of ice storage works out to be about 25 ft. X 30 ft. if the ice is stacked 6 ft. high (and if the floor is supported properly).
(For comparison purposes, Grand Junction had a 30,000 Ton facility, Denver 10,000 tons, Alamosa 2,000 tons.)
Here are two photos of icing facilities. I would guess that Durango's platform resembled the second photo:
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> I don't see an elevated platform in the photo and
> nobody has mentioned any on the NG. How was the
> ice was brought up to the car roof top for loading
> into the bunkers? Were the ice blocks hand
> carried up, one at a time, or was a ramp laid
> against the side of the car and the blocks pulled
> up or pushed up?
I just looked it up - in 1922-23 Durango had a 1,000 Ton ice facility with an 80 ft. platform. 1,000 tons of ice storage works out to be about 25 ft. X 30 ft. if the ice is stacked 6 ft. high (and if the floor is supported properly).
(For comparison purposes, Grand Junction had a 30,000 Ton facility, Denver 10,000 tons, Alamosa 2,000 tons.)
Here are two photos of icing facilities. I would guess that Durango's platform resembled the second photo:
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