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[quote user="wanswheel"]<FONT size=1> </FONT><FONT size=1> <P><FONT size=2>Square Water Tank</FONT></P> <P><FONT size=2><A title=http://www.moffatroad.org/DSLHS/vol41.htm href="http://www.moffatroad.org/DSLHS/vol41.htm" target=_blank>http://www.moffatroad.org/DSLHS/vol41.htm</A></FONT></P> <P></FONT>[/quote]</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva>wanswheel,</FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=2></FONT></SPAN> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=2>Thanks for that reference.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That sure is it all right.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was only there once and it was a sunny winter afternoon.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It sure looks like the tank and the location.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even the lighting is the same, including the shade being cast by the hill with the tunnel right behind the photographer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t think that wood planked casing in the foreground around the base of the tank was intact, but I recognize the basic tub above.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Apparently, if I understand it correctly, that square tank was unique and the only one used on the DN&P.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is really nice to see it so clearly documented because otherwise, in my mind, the one encounter with that tank is a rather obscure memory. At the time, it seemed significant because it was extant so long after the line was abandoned, and because it was square.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
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