Jefferson water tank feed pipe

[Jeff Young]

The Jefferson water tank was fed by a 3” galvanised iron pipe from about 1/2 mile up Jefferson creek.

I assume this pipe was normally buried, but I’m planning on showing a bit of erosion at the side of the creek with the pipe exposed.  Sound plausible?

“Galvanised iron pipe” sounds like what we’d call “gun barrel” over here.  It’s usually joined with threaded pipe fittings.  Would that also be true “back in the day”, or were they more likely joined with bolted flange joints?

(Extra credit if anyone knows of any pictures of these.)

Thanks,
Jeff.

[Chris Walker]

Don't forget that Waterpipe is rated by Inside Diameter not the external.


http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/243/rv/singleitem/rec/236





http://cdm16079.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/44057/rv/singleitem/rec/367

Personally I'd yearn for some rivetted spiral wrap pipe to model myself....

[Jeff Young]

Most interesting.  So it is gun-barrel (with plain threaded fittings), but it’s not (or at least not always) buried.

I’ll have to have a look at the Baker tank this summer.  I was pretty sure its feed was buried and came up through the frost box, unlike the top-entry arrangement at Dickey, but the memory is not always what it once was….

[Jeff Young]

Oh, and thanks much for those, Chris.  You are, as always, a fountain of on-point imagery.

Cheers,
Jeff.

[Robert McFarland]

Don't forget to thank the guys(and gals?) at the DPL Digital Collections for making these photos available.

[Jeff Young]

> Don't forget to thank the guys(and gals?) at the DPL Digital Collections for making these photos available. 

Indeed, it is an invaluable resource.

Thanks, Coi, et al!

[Chris Walker]

https://flic.kr/p/t157wy

The former Tank at Woodstock, the deliverypipe is horizontal at the Frostbox location.

[Jeff Young]

> The former Tank at Woodstock, the deliverypipe is horizontal at the Frostbox location.

And buried.

Are the granite blocks the foundations for the water tank posts?  (I haven’t seen that before.)

[Chris Walker]

Yes, Granite blocks for the foundations,  a lot of Stonemasons found work on the South Park.  If you look back at the Dickey Tank, they have all the hallmarks of cut and dressed stone blocks as well, the leftrear the most obvious.


http://cdm16079.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/44057/rv/singleitem/rec/367

Midway Tank also had these assorted Flagstones scattered about the Tankbase, they are not as thick(or deep) as I would have imagined.  


And a variation on a common theme at Hancock.

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/3859/rv/singleitem/rec/4

[Jeff Young]

They certainly built to a higher spec than the D&RGW.

Speaking of stonemasons, I was browsing around on Google Earth and decided to see if you could make out the big wall on the unfinished grade over Ohio Pass.  Wow.  Jumps out from *much* farther away than you would expect (partly because it throws a very dark shadow).

[Robert McFarland]

Coming up the Ohio Creek road from Gunnison in the early morning on a sunny day it's suprizing how bright it looks.The stone in the wall looks a little lighter in color than the surrounding rock outcroppings.It makes you wonder what things would have looked like if that portion of the line had been finished.