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John Cole

August 13, 2016 01:32PM

Registered: 16 years ago
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While I don't have any photos of the work on the concrete grade beam and footing being installed years ago, here is a link to photos Becky Falk took last month of the interior of the wall facing the track and the sandhouse. You can clearly see the concrete miniwall that John and his teams put in to support the structure. Up until they put that in, all the weight of a 75 ton coal bunker was resting on a WOODEN mud sill, incredible. John thinks the weight started to collapse the wood almost as soon as they filled the coal bunker in the 1920s. No wonder it was leaning.

Becky's photos of the coal tipple interior

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Coal Tipple lean	nedsn3	August 12, 2016 06:11AM
Re: Coal Tipple lean	John Cole	August 12, 2016 08:14AM
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Re: Coal Tipple lean	John Cole	August 12, 2016 04:56PM
Re: Coal Tipple lean	John Cole	August 12, 2016 05:05PM
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Re: Lean to the Left, Nellie, lean to the Right . . .	Russo Loco	August 12, 2016 06:49PM
Re: Lean to the Left, Nellie, lean to the Right . . .	John Cole	August 12, 2016 08:18PM
Re: Lean to the Left, Nellie, lean to the Right . . .	dougvv	August 12, 2016 09:04PM
Re: Lean to the Left, Nellie, lean to the Right . . .	bcp	August 14, 2016 02:46PM
Re: Lean to the Left, Nellie, lean to the Right . . .	dougvv	August 15, 2016 09:20AM
Re: Lean to the Left, Nellie, lean to the Right . . .	Brian Norden	August 12, 2016 11:04PM
Re: Lean to the Left, Nellie, lean to the Right . . .	John Cole	August 13, 2016 01:31AM
Re: Coal Tipple lean	Stan Fischer	August 12, 2016 06:18PM
Re: Lean times in Durango . . .	Russo Loco	August 12, 2016 06:56PM
Re: Coal Tipple lean	John Cole	August 13, 2016 01:32PM
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Back in the day...	John West	August 14, 2016 09:06PM
Re: Coal Tipple lean	MD Ramsey	August 15, 2016 07:31AM
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