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Doug Wachs writes: " I worked at the station a lot during the summer. At that time the trains burnt coal, and they would come in on the track and dump the ashes between the tracks. The track crew that repaired the track would take the ashes from in between and shovel them off to the side. Then in the spring, the CPR would hire me with a team of horses and a tumble bucket, and we would scrape these cinders. If you dig down a bit anywhere around here from about the crossing to the elevator, you will find these cinders."