Nevada Northern Railway Museum is now a tourist railroad that runs steam locomotives.
John Taranto posted three photos with the comment: "Coaling Tower at Ely, Nevada, July 2008. Never before or since have I seen a coaling tower that is half concrete and half wood (???). Why is this?"
John Taranto Gerry Dombroski The concrete one is the original. The wooden one was constructed a few years later when the railroad started to purchase automatic coal stokers for the newer locomotives. Coal stokers required "stoker grade" coal, which was more consistent in size, and thus more expensive. Thus, the need to separate "stoker" coal from "runt" coal.
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| 3 Coal chute is missing from the "concrete side" of the tower. |
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| Debra Robinson, Oct 2019 |
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| Ron Bassett posted, cropped Nevada Northern’s coal and water towers |
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| Wesley Yarborough commented on Ron's post July 2018 |
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