Having fun with water-tower-tipping!

[Kurt Maechner]

I came across a curious episode of water-tower-tipping in the annals of C&S history.  I wrote about it in this post.  I guess they had to come down somehow!

The case discussed on the post is a case where they didn't intend to save the water towers.  I'm curious if anyone knows how they took down towers that they did want to save, such as when they moved the west portal tower and took it to Boreas Pass to replace the previous Baker's Tank.
Enjoy,
Kurt

[Chris Walker]

I was on a Worktrain when they removed the Pahiatua watertank back in the late 70's, one of those NZR designs that looked like the last flat-top at the Como R/H.
The carpenters just drove out all the bolts and removed the braces and then it was pulled over with a wirerope.  I can't recall what the rope was attached to, we had the old Steamcrane attached for lifting all the 12x12's so maybe that winch: it wasn't our Loco I'd remember that.  The cistern was intact when reaching the ground, so it probably could have been reused.  We always had the crane for such purposes, anything to be reused would have been lifted, something the C&S couldn't do.