Re: Bringing water to a water tank

TonyK375 Wrote:
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> The Chili line mainly used water cars W347, 06054,
> 06038 and 0459. The 0459 was the ex Conoco #17,
> the tank was later placed on flat 6217 and became
> 06217. The tank then became the Needleton water
> tank and I believe is still there.
>
> The Rio Grande Also supplied the Monero tank by
> filling water cars in Chama and sending them with
> freights. The W462, W470, 06029 and 06217 were
> commonly assigned to this task.


Thanks, Tony -

It's good to know there is a clear D&RGW precedent for filling water towers from tank cars, so "Wacky Willie" and his "Wild Eyed Foamer" acquaintance (yore's trooly) aren't entirely crazy after all.  (See [ngdiscussion.net] and [ngdiscussion.net].)  Even if Johnny Coal and The Friends are successful in organizing a project to restore water service to Lava Tank from the Los Pinos river below, it will still take some time - possibly several years - to get this funded and completed.  Meanwhile, hauling water to Lava from Sublette could provide greater flexibility to charters on the East End - and even some fine opportunities for Phraud-O-Graphs not possible since the early 1970's.

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender