Quite interesting.... I have never seen any proof of such a
structure but I have learned that never say never on Canadian
railways. It sure would be interesting to find photos of steel tanks
being enclosed or removed to see if there is many changes in the
steel tank or the wooden enclosure from the fully wooden designs.
Peter
At 01:01 PM 07/03/2009, you wrote:
The 3 or 4 CP water tanks I have seen over the past 50 years on the prairies were all steel tanks built atop of a steel structure but enclosed in a wooden shell so it could be heated in winter. I remember as a youngster the water tank at Weyburn, SK coming down in the late 50s. I thought it would have been all wood but when the exterior shell was taken down there was the steel tank inside.
Most of the wooden shells had straight perpendicular walls but some had walls slanted from the bottom up about half way.
>
> Midhurst was also a steel tank with a heater installed in the
> base. I don't believe any steel tank was enclosed.
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