Re: How are the ash pans on coal burning locomotive emptied?

Remembering dumping the fires on the Cedar Point & Lake Erie locomotives, the converted saddletank engines had a flat bottom pan that had a door on the right side, you raked the ashes and what was left of the fire through it on to the ground. The Davenport Mogul's ash pan dumped between the last pair of drivers. After we were sure we had knocked down all of it one of us would move her ahead so neither the locomotive or tender were sitting on the hot ashes. Yes, we didn't have an ash pit. One of the opening shift crews jobs was to go around and scoop up the ash piles and with a wheel barrow dump them in a designated spot. At the end of the season one of the park's front loaders was brought in and they would load it into a dump truck for removal.