Hard bound; about 8½'' x 11"; 289 acid-free-paper pages; over 260 color and black & white photographs, maps and illustrations of tanks and water equipment! Drawings, illustrations, maps and photographs in digital form are also included on a CD/DVD. Tanks that still remain are listed and located with GPS data for those wishing to visit these reminders of Colorado's railroad past. Colorado Railroad Water Tanks is a historical tour of the water tanks of Colorado's steam railroad era. Steam locomotives required a large quantity of water to generate the required amount of steam for motive power. Colorado railroads operated over six hundred tanks located along the approximately 6,000 miles of track. The six hundred tanks and their locations are listed in an index and documented with construction dates, sizes, water sources and pumping equipment, when the information is available. The process and history of bringing water from its source to the locomotive's tender is explained and illustrated.

Colorado Railroad Water Tanks ~ Colorado Rail Annual No. 31

William Reich

Colorado Railroad Historical Foundation, Inc.; Golden, CO

<p>DESCRIPTION: Soft cover, perfect-bound; about 8½'' x 11"; 272 pages. There are 149 B&amp;W patent drawings and applications and 30 photographs and other illustrations. Colorado businesses today include many high tech industries. It should not be a surprise that cutting edge technology is not new to our state or our time. The needs of the folks immigrating to Colorado during the nineteenth century brought new ideas and solutions to the many problems they encountered. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a saying attributed to Plato but Coloradoans took the saying to heart and invented a variety of devices and processes to help them survive and prosper during the nineteenth century. There were patents for all kinds of devices, railroad, mining, bicycles, agricultural equipment, inventions by women inventors, medical, and others. This book is about those inventions and their inventors.</p>

Colorado Inventions and Inventors of the 19th Century

Colorado Railroad Historical Foundation

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Colorado Railroad Water Tanks ~ Colorado Rail Annual No. 31

Colorado Inventions and Inventors of the 19th Century