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Western Railroad Discussion > Any coaling towers still standing in Arizona?Date: 11/07/19 09:02 Any coaling towers still standing in Arizona? Author: robert162 Dear TOs, I travel to Arizona often (Green Valley, Tucson) i would like to photograph a coaling tower, i have found water tanks. TIA robert new york
Date: 11/07/19 09:48 Re: Any coaling towers still standing in Arizona? Author: BCHellman robert162 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Dear TOs, I travel to Arizona often (Green Valley, > Tucson) i would like to photograph a coaling > tower, i have found water tanks. TIA robert > new york All gone. They were removed shortly after the take over of the SP some 20 plus years ago. Date: 11/07/19 11:52 Re: Any coaling towers still standing in Arizona? Author: Lackawanna484 Was the coal tower down by Benson the last to come down?
Posted from Android Date: 11/07/19 21:11 Re: Any coaling towers still standing in Arizona? Author: BCHellman Lackawanna484 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Was the coal tower down by Benson the last to come > down? > > Posted from Android There was no coal tower at Benson. The coal towers west to east were: Tucson, Mescal, Bowie, Lordsburg, and Deming. The last to come down was Tucson. It was said that Tucson's demolition was delayed because a homeless person was living in the tower and it took a while to remove him. The cement coal towers were constructed around 1925 when the SP absorbed the El Paso and Southwestern (EP&SW) in November, 1924. The EP&SW was a coal burning railroad and the idea was to use coal, as well as oil, on the North Line, Tucson to El Paso. There was also a coal tower of steel construction at San Simon, but it's been gone for years. Probably removed not long after 1950, when SP discontinued the use of coal as a fuel. |