Just the stoves, as you can put it onto the chimney vent of a stove…….an open fire as you will know would barely work with one and be very expensive to install.
Morning Bob
Wow! Great stories! You are an excellent writer.
We had a lot more freedom in those days, including the freedom to do things that were a little dangerous. If we paid the price and ended up killing ourselves, I suppose we were free to do that. We didn’t have to worry about endless beeping if we chose not to wear a seatbelt, kids rode in the back of pickup trucks. The nanny state, hell bent on keeping us safe, had yet to arrive. I hate it when someone tells me that it’s for my own safety. I can usually figure out what’s safe for me or not. It reminds me of government inspectors who issue permits. If they sign off on a permit and say things are good; if things end up not being good, they are never held accountable. Why do we need them?
We were encouraged to think critically and take personal responsibility for our actions. Seems there were a lot fewer attorneys. We trusted government for the most part, although that trust is now at least partially responsible for our downfall. The media reported news, rather than telling us how we should think about it.
Ferret asks about things that weren’t good in those times. I’ve been trying to think. One thing, having grown up in Los Angeles, the smog was a lot worse back then. 🤔
Maddog, so you could still have an open wood fire without a metal tube?
Is the tube just for a combustion stove? I built a large wood fireplace in my cottage in Gloucestershire when I extended it in the eighties. The trick is getting the dimensions right for the updraft, as you know. Putting in a tin tube almost anywhere would destroy the air flows. It wasn’t a bug hutch though, terracotta tiles, so that wouldn’t have been a problem.
Gold Train
CN inherited the Duluth, Missabe,& Iron Range railroad
that brings raw iron ore to Minntac or United Taconite mills
where it is processed with limestone into concentrated ore
pellets called Taconite. Then the RR hauls the taconite back
thru Proctor yard and down the hill to the ore docks at Duluth where it
is loaded onto Great Lakes ore boats for shipment to the steel
Mills. Most of the iron production in the country comes thru here.
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/917135/
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/917134/