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Not really........

Earl
January 26, 2001 12:56PM
I don't recall every seeing a generator set in the roundhouse. Nor do I know where it would have been. Perhaps it was installed in the location of the 3rd boiler in the boiler room. The restroom/shower additions survived until a late 70's remodeling job that created the restroom there now. The room created for the water treatment plant was converted to the tool room, but there has been remodeling done since I left.
The electric pump for the water tank is still in there. There was a large steam powered water pump in a framed in "closet" in the back of the machine shop against the boiler room wall. It was removed in the 80's to create more machine shop space.
Chama did not get "public" electricity until after WWII the local electric co-op started. Before then the RR generated its own power and power was available in parts of town supplied by a power plant at the sawmill. At one time there was a diesel powered generating plant on Pine Ave between 1st and 2nd St's.
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Chama Roundhouse

John Templeton January 25, 2001 08:03AM

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Frank Martindell January 26, 2001 10:02AM

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Fred T January 26, 2001 10:42AM

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John January 26, 2001 10:52AM

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Fred T January 26, 2001 11:20AM

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John January 26, 2001 11:32AM

Not really........

Earl January 26, 2001 12:56PM

Re: Not really........

John Templeton January 26, 2001 01:51PM

Change continues

John West January 26, 2001 07:06PM

Nothing like it

El"gut bomb" Coke January 26, 2001 07:29PM

Re: Nothing like it *NM*

Chuck Hollis January 26, 2001 11:57PM

Re: Nothing like it

Oil Czar(Jerry Huck SVRy) January 27, 2001 09:20AM

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SR Bush January 27, 2001 11:44AM

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AL P. January 27, 2001 06:28PM

Re: Nothing like it

Chuck Hollis January 28, 2001 01:10AM



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