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| Robert Gibson Jr. posted Paul Moffitt took this photo of Chicago & Eastern Illinois engine 1020 at Sullivan, Indiana in 1946. Dennis DeBruler The first photo I have seen with all of the metal parts still attached. It looks like it used a skip hoist. |
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| Satellite (Update: May 2019 has a different image with almost no shadow.) |
I can't believe that I've driven on US-41 several times and never realized I was just a few blocks from a standing coaling tower. Neither Google nor Bing have run their Street View Vehicle in this town.
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| Jim Pearson Photography posted CSX empty grain train G026 passes under the old Louisville and Nashville Railway coaling tower at Sullivan, Indiana as it makes its way north on the first day of autumn along the CSX CE&D Subdivision on September 22, 2022. Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/3000, ISO 100. https://fineartamerica.com/.../csx-empty-grain-train-g026... Tim Shanahan shared |
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| Deborah Lynn posted |
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| Bill Raines posted Sullivan Indiana |
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| Don Wtmore posted C&EI coaling tower north of Sullivan, Indiana in March 1982 Dave Ricks This photo raises more questions than it answers! Physically, I guess the coal went up a conveyer belt on the right to the "house" of machinery on top. I guess it was run by electricity, and coal cars unloaded somehow on the right. Was there one coal bin inside to serve both tracks, or was there one coal bin over each track? Socially, I wonder about the rules to operate it. How was a good or bad day at work? How could someone get in trouble by operating it incorrectly? And how is it not smudged with coal dust and soot? That's among the many other things that look strange! Don Wetmore Hopper cars unloaded coal into a pit from an elevated track on the right. A bucket ran up a track to dump it into a single large hopper compartment in the tower. A chute extended over each track from the center. The chute was lowered and a handle was pulled to release the coal. If I can find a video of the process I'll post a link. Dennis DeBruler This photo from when it still had its metal parts shows the two chutes underneath and the skip hoist on the side. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1255493367798489/permalink/2768326029848541/ |
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| Don Wetmore posted CSX action on the C&EI at Sullivan IN on Nov 27 1992 [I was surprised it still had the metal stairs. Then I noticed the date of 1992.] |
I learned of this tower from a Jim Pearson photo. Jim caught another BNSF leading an intermodal under the tower on this CSX route.
Jim Pearson posted (source) with the comment: "November 3, 2018 – Illuminated by the early morning sun, CSX Q029 (Chicago, IL - Atlanta, GA) heads south on CSX’s CE&D Subdivision at Sullivan, Indiana, under the old C&EI coaling tower that was built in 1941 to service steam locomotives."
In Sept 2020, I got hit with a Double Doomsday. Both Facebook and Google changed their software. I said "changed" instead of "updated" because the new software is not better. In fact, Google's Blogger software is far worse except for a search function that works. For example, it has three bugs concerning photos and their captions. So I'm no longer copying photos and interesting comments from Facebook. I'm just saving the link. Unfortunately, some of the links are to private groups.
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