Concrete Water Tank

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Since I am the guy who opened this can of worms, let me add just a bit more. 

Can you imagine the logistics involved in such a construction project, back in a day predating the modern machinery available today? E.g., Fabricating the reinforcing steel, erecting the forms, getting the raw materials for 875,000 lbs of concrete on the site (which may have involved building a special siding,) discharging the ingredients (sand, lime, aggregate) from the bottom of covered hoppers, mixing it in small mixers, raising it to the pour-site with clam shells, and maintaining the mixing/pouring around the clock until the entire pour was finished? 

I'll bet the N&W gave the work of building these tanks to an outside contractor, rather than performing the work with Comp'ny forces. 

Has anyone figured out when the first of these edifices was built on the N&W? Is there a comprehensive list of how many of them existed, and were? 

-- abram burnett 
zaporozhian cossack, pennsylvania oblast 

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