Planing Mill Question

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Sawdust was used with icing operations for refrigerated box car service. 
Maybe the shavings went there?

Ron Davis

On 9/20/2015 8:28 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> Recently someone asked me about cars (of another road) which were 
> designated "Shaving(s) Cars" in the Equipment Register.
>
> This made me think about the Shaffers Crossing planing mill. The 
> planing mill had a large metal retaining tank, perhaps 60 feet in the 
> air, into which I think the wood shavings from the planing work may 
> have been blown. It was located on the south side of the planing mill, 
> adjacent to the Ice House.
>
> Does anyone know how disposition was made of the shavings? Were they 
> burned on-site for steam generation, sold, or disposed of as trash?  
> Unfortunately, the planing mill was closed shortly before I hired, and 
> I never took time to explore it or ask questions.
>
> Photo attached, with red arrow pointing to this tank.  Notice that the 
> tender of Engine 2112 sports an antenna for what appears to be 
> inductive train phone equipment.
>
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