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[ Maybe someone could come up with a way to pick up water while running at speed. [;)] Jon [/quote] Someone did... they were called water troughs... a mile or more of troughs dead flat between the rails and a scoop on the tender. The train had to be running fast enough to collect the water but not so fast the scoop couldn't be lifted clear. The former meant that only fast passenger services and things like mails and express reefers used them... everything else stopped. The latter meant that the end could be smashed out of the trough / the scoop damaged. this could require a loco change and would require everything following to stop for water. troughs would also ice up. I heard a talk by a Great Western Driver who had fired during WW2. Hauling a troop train of GIs up from Plymouth without a blanking plate on the leading passenger car's corridor diaphragm he misjudged the fill of the tank... It over-topped at speed and flooded the first two cars...FAST. When they arrived at their destination he and the driver did an extremely fast disappearing act.
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