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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">All,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">As I said and without getting into a corporate history of mining companies that operated there (one of the last was known as Shannon Branch), it was part of the coal company's facility -- not a railroad water tank. Countless pictures verify that. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">N&W water treatment plants were in a separate building (often corrugated and painted a light color), adjacent to the water tanks. That, in itself, would make a nice modeling topic.<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Tim Hensley<br></div><div><br></div>
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On Monday, January 27, 2025 at 10:52:40 AM EST, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp187b74eyiv9311889672"><div>My first thought was that it is a component of a water treatment facility; perhaps a mixing or settling tank given its low head. If it is, the structure on top could be housing the mechanism for the metering the treatment materials into the raw water. <div><br clear="none"></div><div>However as a counterpoint, I don’t find Caples (or Mohegan) on the 1957 list of locations with water treatment plants (shared on this list a year or two ago) and I also couldn’t find anything to support (or counter) that idea in the archives. There’s not much on Caples.</div><div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Matt Goodman</div><div>Columbus, Ohio, US<br clear="none" id="ydp187b74eyiv9311889672lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br clear="none"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 26, 2025, at 11:10 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org> wrote:</div><br clear="none" class="ydp187b74eyiv9311889672Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div><div style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" class="ydp187b74eyiv9311889672ydp3369d9c7yahoo-style-wrap"><div></div>
<div dir="ltr">All, <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Looks like a coal company-built water tank. This is Caples (named for M.J. Caples, an N&W officer), not Mohegan. Mohegan was just west of Farm. <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Tim Hensley<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div>
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On Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 07:20:39 AM EST, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp187b74eyiv9311889672ydpf3b4a6b0yiv7443051280"><div dir="ltr">What is that thing on the left in the Ebay photo of Mohegan below?<div><span id="ydp187b74eyiv9311889672cid:p1AC3pv1LAT2BSHSrUmA"><image.png></span><br clear="none"></div><div>Bottom looks like a water tank. Would they have built an inhabitable enclosure over the top for some reason?</div><div>Information/opinions welcome,</div><div>Jim Cochran</div></div>
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