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Re: Bucket, N&W
I'll agree with 'Dr'. Huber. Coal bucket. Into the station, or caboose, or
older, passenger cars.
Charlie Long
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On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 4:47 PM 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
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