Santa Fe Railway destroyed this structure
on October 15, 1952 at 11:17am. These pictures will show the destruction
in sequence as they appeared. This Coal Chute was built to withstand
time and the pictures below will demonstrate how hard it fought
mankind against destruction. The plan was to fall it into a pit
on the north side of the main lines and thus it would break and
crumble upon impact. The Old Fellow didn't do what they wanted
it to but instead fell into one big hunk therefore creating a
big job for Santa Fe to break the thing up afterwards. One big
thumbs up for "The Old Baring Coal Chute"!!!!!
