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Earl

December 31, 2012 05:24PM

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Only the tanks that were fed by streams and springs were fed by the "overflow" method and ran all the time. Those tanks that were pumped or were connected to domestic water systems could and did freeze in the winter. The Antonito and Chama tanks are that way and get drained in the winter. Lava would have been the same story.

In 1966-7 the Antonito tank froze and the bottom was broken out. After that all trains had to get water at La Jara and Lava.

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