Water Towers - Various Locations - Wood and Steel

I understand why they put it where they did, but I agree it would have been a lot better to wait until it was complete before placing it beside the tank.

Remember the Beaumont, KS water tank never had a spout on it.

 

Hello Friend,

Do you have any pictures of your water tanks?

I would like to see them. I do not believe ours exists, unless its the old water tower, but do not know for sure.

I am interested in building small scale, something like 55 gal. plastic drums.

Any help, would be great!

Thanks,

Darrell

 

It will take a little while, but I am scratch building two Frisco 55,000 gal wooden water tanks.

It will have a lot of photos in the article.

 

Was there a standard on the Frisco for how far water towers were placed apart in the system?

Thanks,

 

I think the answer is no.

I think the governing factor would be the availability of water resources rather than a certain number of miles. In the days of steam the Frisco had a chemist based in Springfield who would travel to each water source and check it for quality according to an old-timer who worked at the Fort Smith roundhouse.

If there was a problem, treatment chemicals would be added to ensure the proper water quality profile was attained. The Frisco was also fortunate that much of the area it traversed had water resources, unlike say the Santa Fe in Arizona where water resources were non-existent.

The lack of water was the main reason why the Santa Fe was allowed to purchase freight diesels in WWII.