What is it?

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Frank

The bucket was made in the tin shop of Roanoke shops.  It was listed as 
tin ware and was carried by the storehouse. Heavy and well built buckets.

Every one of the answers given is a possible one.  Since you are a 
station man it could have been used by the agent to collect water from a 
leaking roof.

Skip, you will know the answer.  My bucket has a convex bottom where it 
was used to collect something heavy and hot.

They were used in the shops to catch hot rivets.  I think we may have a 
photo showing this on the hopper car line back in the days when hot 
rivets were used.

Jim Blackstock

On 10/26/2021 11:51 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List wrote:
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> Roger Huber
> Deer Creek Locomotive Works
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> On Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 05:50:52 AM CDT, NW Mailing List 
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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
> Lynchburg
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> On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 4:47 PM NW Mailing List 
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>     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 !
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