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(engines).  Looking up Georgetown, Co. on the net will pull up photos of two different firehouses, both survivors of the

boomtown mining days.  One of these has a hose drying tower attached to it, and I, with license, chose to freelance it into

one with no false front and room for two engines.  It was built with a two store "original" of clapboard, and an "added lean-to"

of board and batten basswood. Roof is of Clever Models shingles cut into strips for a third dimension.  A brass bell in a cupola

was added.  This has been on my bucket list, and I got it done while waiting for the #561 paint problems to cure.

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DennisB:  You might have to ask Georgetown's city fathers, but if you pull the photo of the best known Georgetown, Co., firehouse up on the net, there it is, still today in

place.  I have just assumed that it was to carry sparks away from the hose tower,

which is immediately behind the chimney set back on the roof of the firehouse.

(similar to the famous spark deflectors on Colorado and Southern narrow gauge

locomotive stacks)

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