by .Taurus.
For what were these old coaling towersfor?
Did they fill the steam engines with coal?
But why did they sometimes stay far away from a engine yard, where the steam engine were maintained and filled with water?
(Search on railpictures.net for 'coaling' and you will find more of these, standing somewhere in the landscape for away from a yard)
This must be the coaling tower from above.
It stands alone above the mainline tracks, no yard or water tower visible?
It's strange for me as a european, because our steam engines where maintained und filled in the enigne yards (Betriebswerk)
(I also know that the fast long distance passenger trains was filled up under way with water (on a special track , with a special construction on the tender), but i never heard, that they stop somewhere in the nowhere to fill the coal up.)
Greets
Did they fill the steam engines with coal?
But why did they sometimes stay far away from a engine yard, where the steam engine were maintained and filled with water?
(Search on railpictures.net for 'coaling' and you will find more of these, standing somewhere in the landscape for away from a yard)
This must be the coaling tower from above.
It stands alone above the mainline tracks, no yard or water tower visible?
It's strange for me as a european, because our steam engines where maintained und filled in the enigne yards (Betriebswerk)
(I also know that the fast long distance passenger trains was filled up under way with water (on a special track , with a special construction on the tender), but i never heard, that they stop somewhere in the nowhere to fill the coal up.)
Greets