While watching westerns on television and movies you see trains pull up and stop at a water tower and fill up the steam engine. How did those pumps or windmill's pull the water up to the tower.
Just to give you an idea how much water was used by those water-guzzling locomotives, it took 1,000 gallons of water just to go fifteen miles. Today the D&RG narrow gauge steam locomotive from
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