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John Wilke

July 05, 2012 08:10AM

Registered: 16 years ago
Posts: 229

It is indeed a treat for us railfans to watch the CASS Scenic engines dropping suction hoses in the the creek cisterns, then taking draft to refill the tenders.

Was this procedure commonly used on the Western railroads? Logging roads? Mainlines anywhere?

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Cisterns	John West	July 04, 2012 02:21PM
Re: Cisterns	Rich Muth	July 04, 2012 03:26PM
Re: Cisterns	bill ramaley	July 05, 2012 08:01PM
Re: Cisterns	Brian Norden	July 04, 2012 06:53PM
Re: Cisterns	Greg Scholl	July 04, 2012 06:56PM
Re: Cisterns	Ernie Barney	July 04, 2012 09:58PM
Re: Cisterns	miller	July 05, 2012 06:35AM
Re: Cisterns	John Wilke	July 05, 2012 08:10AM
Filling an engine tank from a creek	John West	July 05, 2012 08:34AM
Re: Filling an engine tank from a creek	CharlieMcCandless	July 05, 2012 11:55AM
Re: Filling an engine tank from a creek	mikerowe	July 05, 2012 01:21PM
Re: Filling an engine tank from a creek	NGJunkie	July 05, 2012 04:59PM
Re: Filling an engine tank from a creek	Dirk Ramsey	July 05, 2012 09:05PM
Re: Filling an engine tank from a creek	NGJunkie	July 06, 2012 07:00AM
Re: Filling an engine tank from a creek	Trevor Heath	July 06, 2012 06:52PM
Re: Filling an engine tank from a creek	dougvv	July 05, 2012 06:16PM
Re: Cisterns	NGJunkie	July 05, 2012 05:19PM
Re: Cisterns	Jimmy Blouch	July 06, 2012 06:26PM
The bigger story	John West	July 06, 2012 10:43PM

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