Re: 425 Morning Fires

John Cole Wrote:
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> On that last photo of the coal tipple you can see
> the brown telephone pole and header put there
> years ago to help arrest the leaning of the
> tipple. When John Sutkus and his team started
> fixing the lean and put in a concrete grade beam
> the tipple was resting on that 8"X12" header
> directly 'WITHOUT' those wedge blocks. You can
> now clearly see how much the lean has been
> corrected over the last 6 or more years by
> gradually straightening up the lean. Now the
> structure is plumb except the lean of the top
> sheve house at the top that has taken a permanent
> lean over the decades.
>
> This is sure graphic evidence of how bad the lean
> used to be.

John, Maybe I should post that picture in a different thread so people may take notice of what a great change your Friend of the Cumbres and Toltec RR members are doing, to even the coaling tower something that all may totally over look, while photographing around the Chama yards.

Still a Student,

Dave