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The building in question was the coal company's water treatment plant at Caples. It also supplied water to the N&W's 50,000 gallon tank. You can read about it in the article on Farm, WV that appeared in the Arrow some years ago.

Alex Schust

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Tim, I managed to read right over the word “coal” in your original email. My brain saw “it looks like a company-built water tank”, which I interpreted as the N&W. Thanks for reiterating your original point.

I gave a talk to a local group about the steam locomotive water supply, and touched on the treatment structures and processes. Modelers are familiar with coal docks and water tanks, but treatment facilities are a blind spot for most (including me until two years ago).

Matt Goodman
Columbus, Ohio

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On Jan 27, 2025, at 1:28 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:


All,

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.

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.

Tim Hensley

On Monday, January 27, 2025 at 10:52:40 AM EST, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:


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.

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.

Matt Goodman
Columbus, Ohio, US

On Jan 26, 2025, at 11:10 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

All,

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.

Tim Hensley

On Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 07:20:39 AM EST, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:


What is that thing on the left in the Ebay  photo of Mohegan below?
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Bottom looks like a water tank.  Would they have built an inhabitable enclosure over the top for some reason?
Information/opinions welcome,
Jim Cochran
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