Water Towers - Various Locations - Wood and Steel

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  1. unknown

    unknown Guest

    Water Tower - Beaumont, KS, MP 458.5 - Beaumont and Wichita Subdivisions

    Beaumont water tower.

    Photographer unknown.

    If you know, please write me.
     

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  2. mike

    mike Guest

    Beaumont water tank. July 1969.

    Wood frame structure in the background is the old engine house.

    Westbound freight on main track of the Wichita Subdivision near right side of picture.
     

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  3. timothy

    timothy Guest

    Water Tower and John Ellis 'Tim' Pryor - Wittenburg, MO, MP 103.2 - St. Louis Subdivision

    This is my great grandfather John Ellis 'Tim' Pryor at Wittenburg, MO, June 1938.

    He was a "stationary engineer" for many many years for the Frisco.

    This is a very nice shot of the water tower, and if you look close the stock pens.
     

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  4. timothy

    timothy Guest

    John Ellis 'Tim' Pryor, stationary engineer, in front of pump house at Chaffee, MO

    John Ellis 'Tim' Pryor, stationary engineer, in front of pump house at Chaffee, MO.
     

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  5. douglas

    douglas Guest

    Water Tanks - Dixon, MO, MP 134.6 - Lebanon Subdivision

    Dixon, MO had two water tanks in the steam days.

    The water well there suppled water that was very hard. Our home's water supply smelled of sulfur. So the story was that one tank held the water being softened by chemicals and the other the treated water.

    The tank foundation footings survived for years.

    Doug
     

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  6. tom

    tom Guest

    Water Tower - Le Flore, OK, 468.8 - Arthur Subdivision

    This is a photo of the 1949 removal of the Frisco water tank at Le Flore, OK.

    The removal was caused by the Wister Dam relocation.
     

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  7. roger

    roger Guest

    Water Tower - Southwest City, MO, MP - Subdivision

    Southwest City, MO.
     

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  8. Water Tower - Newburg, MO, MP 119.1, Rolla and Lebanon Subdivision

    New water tower construction, 1917 at Newburg, MO.

    FM
     

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  9. rcmck

    rcmck Member Frisco.org Supporter

    Water Tower - Beaumont, KS, MP 458.5 - Beaumont and Wichita Subdivisions

    There is another picture, pretty good in quality, of the Beaumont, Kansas water tower on Flicker Photos.

    Click on this link, and highlight it, to get you to it:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/15321964@N07/2275537073

    I'd like to visit this someday soon and report back with more photos and information.

    Enjoy!

    Bob McKeighan
    Lenexa, KS
     
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  10. john

    john FRISCO.org Supporter

    A small but usable set of plans, along with tables of dimensions, for a standard Frisco water tower, circa 1902, can be found in the Proceedings of American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association, Volume 3, page 170.

    Roughly in the middle of the article.

    It can be downloaded for free through Google Books.

    John
     
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  11. TAG1014 (Tom Galbraith RIP 7/15/2020)

    TAG1014 (Tom Galbraith RIP 7/15/2020) Passed Away July 15, 2020 Frisco.org Supporter

    Where is the recent posting of the Atlas water tank with the Oddballs decals?

    It was right around here someplace.

    Tom
     
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  12. pensive

    pensive Member Frisco.org Supporter

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  13. TAG1014 (Tom Galbraith RIP 7/15/2020)

    TAG1014 (Tom Galbraith RIP 7/15/2020) Passed Away July 15, 2020 Frisco.org Supporter

    Thanks Richard.

    Tom
     
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  14. Oldguy

    Oldguy Member Frisco.org Supporter

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  15. SAFN SAAP

    SAFN SAAP Member

    Priceless.

    I wish there was a way to blow them up in size to read the dimensional data.
     
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  16. Oldguy

    Oldguy Member Frisco.org Supporter

    Your PDF reader should have a magnify option.

    I save most of the drawings in the high resolution option and I can get see all the dimensions.

    I use Irfan View for most images.
     
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  17. renapper (Richard Napper RIP 3/8/2013)

    renapper (Richard Napper RIP 3/8/2013) Passed away March 8, 2013

    Way back in the late 1980s, I travelled to Beaumont, KS and measured the water tank, and took many photos of it.

    I used that information to scratch build the tank in HO scale. I wrote an article about building the tank, but the information was lost by the Mid-Continent Region Caboose Kibitzer editor and never published.

    I gave the model to my friend, Larry Parrish, because he is modelling Beaumont, KS. I also gave him my scratch built Beaumont, KS depot.

    If any one would be interested, I could write an article for The Meteor about the tank model.
     
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  18. Oldguy

    Oldguy Member Frisco.org Supporter

    You betcha!
     
  19. William Jackson

    William Jackson Bill Jackson

    I too would like to see your information on the Beaumont water.

    It was one of my favorite places to work. The high hills, in spring, with coyote hunting, with greyhounds brings back good memories.

    We use to watch the hunters from the track, good thing was the foreman liked to watch also.

    William Jackson
     
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  20. renapper (Richard Napper RIP 3/8/2013)

    renapper (Richard Napper RIP 3/8/2013) Passed away March 8, 2013

    In the Northern Division Bridge and Building (B&B) book that I have, it lists a well house next to the Beaumont, KS water tank.

    This makes me think that the tank was filled from a underground stream and not the Beaumont lake.

    Does anyone know for sure?

    I'll get to work on the article, I have to build another water tank anyway.
     
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