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From: Dave Rutan rutan3 AT embarqmail DOT com
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:56:11 -0400
Subject: DL&W Oil Houses? II
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Hmm. Maybe I asked this the wrong way.

Does anyone have photos of the other junctions along the DLW which
perhaps show something like this picture from Branchville Junction on
the DLW Sussex Branch? If it's typical of junctions, perhaps that's
where we'll find them.

I've almost come up with a theory about the structure because of its
uniqueness. We really need a water pump type guy to help us out here
though.

Pre 1905 the station agent was drawing water from a spring or shallow
well several hundred feet from his house. This guy was an old Civil War
veteran and the DLW took pity on him and gave him indoor plumbing (for
water at least) in 1905 when the built the 'improved' station at
Branchville Junction. Another improvement in that area in 1905 was the
water tank for engines.

I'm wondering if this bunker couldn't have merely been an enclosure for
a gasoline powered water pump (info from ICC reports ca 1918) which
would draw the water a few feet vertically and several hundred feet
horizontally, then perhaps charge a tank for the house and deliver water
to the water tank further on. The concrete enclosure might have been to
a) keep the pipes from freezing and b) contain an explosion from the
fuel of the gasoline engine.

Dave Rutan
--
The First Railroad in Sussex County New Jersey
http://DLW-SussexBranch.com
Monomania can be a good thing


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