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| Street View, Jan 2021 |
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| Howard Zhu, Dec 2024 |
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| Louisiana Life posted [Description is padded with a lot of AI platitudes.] Lawrence Lois Bartel: I loved this museum visit. There's railroad memorabilia right next door too. [The red-brick building in the street view at the top of these notes houses the railroad museum.] |
The pump in the above photo is in the background of this photo. I think the pump in the foreground is older because of the header tank used to combine the four pulses of water into a steady stream.
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| Carter Sutton, Oct 2016 |
They had at least two drill presses.
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| Michael Anderson, Jul 2026 |
"The last known steam-powered municipal water treatment plant in the United States
when its steam engines were finally retired in 1980." [ShreveportWaterWorks]
I was surprised how late some of Chicago's pumping stations used steam. I think it was because they needed variable speed pumps, and they waited until power semiconductors allowed them to use AC motors to replace the steam pumps.
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| ShreveportWaterWorks_museum, 5 of 5 |
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| ShreveportWaterWorks_history |
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