Ronceverte, WV: C&O Coaling Tower

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[They must drive around on a Sunday because they got this shot from a parking lot and there are no cars in the way.]

Aaron Bryant posted, cropped
C&O concrete coaling tower located in Roncevert, W.Va. 9/19.
Aaron Bryant posted

Before the skip hoist rails were covered with vines.

Debbie Newsom Hampton shared a post by Charles Edwards
C&O/Chessie SD50 8566 giving a push on a eastbound coal train at Ronceverte WV. C E Turley photo 5-20-85

 

Jersey Mike's Rail Adventures
[Taken from Amtrak's Cardinal train as it passed by. The leaves are off the vine so we can see part of the skip hoist.]

Thomas Dorman posted 14 photos with the comment:

Chesapeake & Ohio Railway locomotive coaling station at Ronceverte, West Virginia. It is a 75-ton capacity tower built in 1935 by the Ogle Engineering Company of Chicago and served only one track. It is adjacent to Monroe Avenue east of Chestnut Street. There are good views from East Edgar Avenue looking across the tracks. (37.74904, -80.462) 20 May 2017.

You can tell this must be a rural area because nobody has stolen the metal for scrap value. You not only see the skip-hoist tracks, photo 7 shows the bucket.

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Ted Gregory posted
Old C&O coaling tower at Ronceverte, WV.
Anyone care to annunciate that name?
I will post later what we called it on the railroad.
Note existing CSX Double Track.
Pic from Oct 2015.
Ted Gregory Patrick the railroaders I worked with at CSX pronounced it rons-fert, so you were correct about the silent e's.

Charlie Easton commented on Ted's post
Probably built by the same company as Akron's B&O tower.
Ted Gregory Looks like similar architecture Charlie. Even though the C&O/B&O merger didnt happen till 1963, they were courting back when these were built and probably used same designer.