Crane's Pond in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, now a city park. There is another lake
north of New London, Iowa now owned by a country club, but I don't know the
name.
Ken Vandevoort
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, John Almond <almondj@...> wrote:
>
> Can you provide some examples of lakes owned by railroads? I never gave it
> a thought, thinking that most water came from wells they owned or rivers
> openly available.
>
> I can understand it as a tender¹s water capacity was greater by volume than
> 50%, and water is heavier (no air content) than coal per cubic unit. A
> further question would be later use of oil by steam engines is water
> heavier than oil (I believe it is)? Did tenders carrying oil still have
> less than 50% of the tender¹s capacity by volume?
>
> The simple statement provided here is what discussion is all about. It may
> well provide the opportunity to think, answer a question or solve a problem,
> but it should leave another opportunity for further discussion and
> education.
>
> John in Tucson
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> On 3/5/11 4:36 PM, "cbqrr47" <cbqrr47@...> wrote:
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> > In 1940, U S railroads used more tons of water than any other commodity.
> > Much
> > of it came from company owned lakes and wells. Many of the lakes remain
> > today.
> >
> >
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> >
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