I have put together a mile marker collection of Sumpter Valley items on Microsoft live maps. You can access it here:
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maps.live.com]
I gleened info from blueprints, track elevation charts, and the ICC valuation documents. As per the water tower near Tipton, there is a water tower west of S-curve between mile marker 53 and 54. For what it's worth, I located water towers at the following locations:
(mile posts listed are those previous going westbound)
- south baker
- MP 16 bounder gorge
- MP 27 S Wye
- MP 31 (abandoned)
- MP 38 before McCoy siding
- MP 43 Whitney
- MP 47 after Carroll siding
- MP 53 after S curve
- MP 58 Austin station
- MP 68 Dixie wye, lists a pipe and ditch but no water tower
- MP 79 Prairie city