Re: Mystery Water Tank

Posted by Jim Courtney on Mar 29, 2024; 3:44am
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Re: Leavick branch in B&B books.

I went back through Rick's B&B book, copied page 145 concerning the Alma Branch. There is no mention of buildings and bridges on the Leavick branch, as if there were none:




I've re-read the sections about the Leavick Branch in Poor, The Pictorial Supplement and the CRA. Leavick was the shipping point for the Horseshoe mining district. There is surprisingly little info on this part of the C&Sng. The only mentions of the Leavick branch concern the train wreck of the eastbound mixed train in DL&G days, illustrated by the picture that Jeff Young posted. In accounts of the wreck, the train left Leavick and began descending the 5.8% grade. As the train tried to slow to take water at Mudsill, the train ran away and toppled over the side of the embankment.

So, perhaps there was a water tank at Mudsill, about a mile below Leavick. But the portion of the 1918 ICC valuation map of Leavick/Mudsill, published in the Klingers' book, shows no tank, nor any other structures.

As to the Alma, AKA London Junction tank, it was a big 47,500 gal tank. Here is a photo of the tank dated 1914, from my computer files (don't remember where I found it, perhaps from one of the Klingers' books):




And by the time the Denver Water Board special visited Alma in 1929, the tank looked about the same (tank at right frame):




So, is it still possible to take a jeep ride up to Mudsill??