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 With the lawn chair as a comparison for size, this is a quite small bucket. Wouldn't think you could carry in much coal with it. Maybe water?
Jim Nichols
    On Monday, October 25, 2021, 03:37:30 PM CDT, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:  
 
    It is a little too short and too narrow to be a "honey can," and it does not have holes for chain hooks on the sides, either.       Honey Cans were chained under the toilet discharges of passenger trains when they stopped at Roanoke, so the items of sewage would not be discharged onto the track.  I am sure the cans were also used at other terminals, as well, where trains had stops longer than just brief stops to receive/discharge passengers.  And, no, I do not know what craft of men had the job of handling (and dumping) these things.  Perhaps forces from the Coach Yard ?       The bucket also has the wrong proportions for a journal dope bucket, and no lid.       Verdict:  I am stumped. Ask somebodyn really old, like Mr. Miller or Mr. Blackstock !       -- abram burnett   Don't Trust Your Luck - Ship Your Turnips by Truck        ==========================================   A time is coming when men will go mad,       and when they see someone who is not mad,          they will attack him, saying,              "You are mad; you are not like us. "                  ~  St Antony the Great (+356 A.D.)   ==========================================   ________________________________________
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