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by **Rick Calkins** » Wed Jun 13, 2018 9:10 pm

Night Watchman Quarters

The yard crew was shuffling cars around 5:00 P.M. Saturday and exposed the "night watchman's quarters." It is the yellow building with green roof nestled among the trees on the east side of the tracks. Looking north from the building, you will see the snow removal equipment and several boxcars. Soon this group of cars was pulled back in front of the night watchman quarters.

The locomotive has coupled with the snow blower to the front and a string of cars to the caboose. It is pulling the snow blower and pushing the cars at the same time. The odd looking consist is moved south until the snowblower and a new string of coupled cars to the north cover the watchman quarters from view. This task is completed in less than 35 minutes.

This grouping of cars stayed in place up to the time it was too dark to see any changes.

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by **Rick Calkins** » Wed Jun 13, 2018 9:25 pm

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Tipple Sand House Bunker

Last summer, Friends work crews spent substantial time and effort refurbishing the sand house which is located adjacent to the tipple. Since then it is not surprising to see a locomotive parked next to the sand house in the lower right corner of the south camera, Listening carefully, you could almost hear the sand passing down from the raised large elongated funnel shaped storage tank into the sand dome of the locomotive. Today, I suspect that the sand is poured from bags stored in the house on pallets into the dome. The pallets are then thrown or broken up and placed in the sand bunker, just out-of-sight of the South Camera.

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