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

True West May/June 2025
In This Issue:
Features
- Historic Hotels of the American West
- A Journey Through Wyoming’s Outlaw History
- A Journey Through Washington’s Wild Frontier
- Blazing The Oregon Trail
- Journey Through Time
- Did Brigham Young Order a Massacre?
- Mountain Meadows Scapegoat John D. Lee VS. A Firing Squad
- Mormons in the Movies
- An Indigenous Consultant Ensures Accuracy
- The Battle Axe And A Raw Deal
- Showdown: Bridger VS. Brigham
- The Mountain Man and the Mormon Moses
- The Ghosts of Mountain Meadows
- The War Before the War
- Mountain Meadows