----- Original Message ----- From: Jim and Cheryl Martin . . . . . . This list is often a sandbox for whiners and . . . . . . . > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sandbox. That's an interesting term. I like sandhouse better.
In the smaller sandhouse, green (wet) sand was hand shoveled from an outdoor storage bin into a conical drier built on top of a stove. As the sand dried it sifted out the bottom of the drier onto the floor, and was then shoveled into a screened bin that funneled it into a below-ground storage tank. >From that tank it was siphoned by compressed air into elevated storage/delivery bins or tanks. (The sandhouse stove made this a warm place for railroaders to gather and talk, and "sandhouse" became a railroad term for gossip.) Andy Sperandeo in http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/13/t/94466.aspx Tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan
