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Backing up a minute to the DNW&P:

December 22, 2005 01:34PM
I want to understand this, and this is why I ask. In the early 1970s, I visited the east end of the Moffat Tunnel, and on the north side of the D&RGW line, near the east portal, I found an abandoned railroad grade that climbed up the mountain with a lot of curves, and seemed to head generally west. If this was the DNW&P, I understand that this line became the Denver & Salt Lake, and operated until the Moffat Tunnel was opened in 1928.
I followed the grade for a couple miles or so. There were ruins of trestles lying in canyons as heaps of rotting timbers. Eventually the line came to a short tunnel that had caved in or was plugged solid. A couple hundred feet east of the tunnel, on the north side of the roadbed, was what appeared to be the remains of a lineside water tank, but the tank was a rectangular box instead of the typical cylinder shape. Was this the DNW&P line? Did they use square water tanks? Or, as John mentioned, is this the one and only square tank that was used by the construction contractor? What is this location like today?
The ruins of this tank were standing, but the tank structure was quite broken open. It may have once had a cylindrical steel tank inside of it, but there was no evidence of that. The box structure appeared to be very robustly constructed, with big timbers, long steel rods, bolts, nuts, etc.
RK
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Water tanks

Kevin December 22, 2005 06:59AM

Re: Water tanks

Ron Keagle December 22, 2005 07:31AM

Re: Water tanks

John Templeton Chama Station Agent December 22, 2005 07:38AM

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frank martindell December 22, 2005 07:46AM

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John Templeton Chama Station Agent December 22, 2005 07:51AM

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Henry December 22, 2005 08:03AM

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Fred December 22, 2005 08:20AM

Re: Water tanks

Burr Hubbell December 22, 2005 07:52AM

Re: Ron, Henry and Burr are correct . . .

Crayuft December 22, 2005 08:08AM

But the really interesting question is.....

John West December 22, 2005 08:37AM

Easy...

Kevin Cook December 22, 2005 09:02AM

Good One, Kev! *NM*

Mike Trent December 22, 2005 02:31PM

Re: Easy...

Hoss - The Wideload December 22, 2005 08:28PM

Re: But the really interesting question is.....

Burr Hubbell December 22, 2005 09:41AM

Re: D&RG Rectangular Tanks

Tom December 22, 2005 09:43AM

Backing up a minute to the DNW&P:

Ron Keagle December 22, 2005 01:34PM

Re: Backing up a minute to the DNW&P:

Trevor Hartford December 22, 2005 02:12PM

Re: Backing up a minute to the DNW&P:

John Templeton Chama Station Agent December 22, 2005 02:21PM

Re: Backing up a minute to the DNW&P:

Donald Foster December 22, 2005 03:43PM

A distinction needs to be made.

Ron Keagle December 22, 2005 05:29PM

Tanks are barrels...

Keith Hayes December 26, 2005 09:51PM

Re: Water tanks

Dana Deering December 27, 2005 08:43AM

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Dennis December 27, 2005 09:11AM

Re: Water tanks *LINK*

Gordon Cook December 28, 2005 12:13PM

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Dennis December 28, 2005 01:03PM

Re: Water tanks

Charlie Mutschler December 28, 2005 09:36PM



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