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Casey Carlson

April 06, 2005 06:42PM

The flues, (or tubes I guess if we want to be technical), were also bored nightly in Leadville according to a hostler helper who worked there in the late '30's. I was surprised to hear this as well, since I thought that was quite a bit of work to do nightly and that they must have had a fairly annoying kind of coal. But he said that every night when the engines would come in they would "...coal up, knock the flues, wipe 'em down, and do whatever they needed to get 'em ready to head out the next morning."

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Helpers	Linn W. Moedinger	April 05, 2005 03:04PM
Re: Helpers	Fred	April 05, 2005 03:09PM
Helpers on the C&S	Mike Trent	April 05, 2005 03:43PM
Re: Helpers on the C&S	Paul Gibbs	April 05, 2005 05:35PM
Re: Helpers on the C&S	Mike Trent	April 05, 2005 06:21PM
Re: Helpers on the C&S	Matthew	April 05, 2005 11:03PM
Re: Helpers on C&S / Keep Asking Questions	Russ Sperry	April 06, 2005 12:30AM
Re: Boring Flues??	J.B.Bane	April 06, 2005 02:00PM
Boring Flues on the C&S LINK	Mike Trent	April 06, 2005 03:46PM
Re: Boring Flues on the C&S	Casey Carlson	April 06, 2005 06:42PM
Re: Boring Flues on the C&S	Mike Trent	April 06, 2005 07:26PM
Helper orders	John West	April 05, 2005 03:22PM
Re: Helpers	Dennis O'Berry	April 05, 2005 06:47PM
Re: Helpers	Linn W. Moedinger	April 05, 2005 08:20PM
Re: Helpers	Dennis O'Berry	April 06, 2005 09:15PM
Re: Helpers	Linn W. Moedinger	April 05, 2005 08:15PM
Re: Helpers	John West	April 05, 2005 08:43PM
Re: Helpers	Dan Robirds	April 05, 2005 10:22PM
Re: Helpers	Dave G	April 06, 2005 11:05AM
Re: Helpers	Jerry Day	April 06, 2005 03:32PM

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