Water Tower

Now that right there is funny!

Saw it in person today and went directly back home. I couldn't stand looking at it.

What really matters is the Cleveland curse is finally over!!!!

TTD 120mph said:

Saw it in person today and went directly back home. I couldn't stand looking at it.

But could you sit? ;)

Yea, I was sitting...........in my car..........on my way home. It still haunts my dreams.

Well that explains why you couldn't stand looking at it. Pretty hard to stand up in a car unless it is a convertible or it has a sunroof.

CoasterGuy15 said:

A similar style water tower was just built in my town, and it's an eyesore. I thought they would have put some sort of masonry or something around the base, but they left it looking unfinished with a bunch of industrial looking concrete

I'm assuming Cedar Point chose this option because it seems the most durable and can hold a lot more water, and with a possible Soak City expansion in 2016, they may need the extra water. Whatever the case, I hope they find some way to spruce it up. Leaving it blank would be a missed opportunity to do something creative.

They could have done something like this, and did a cool mural or something where the green area is under the tank. Just an idea

Just rode past this (top one)for the first time since it's been finished. It's so massive it completely dominates everything around it they probably should have tried to find someplace a little more out of the way to put it than that intersection. Of course it just occurred to me that making N. Ridgeville look at it instead of Avon may have been the point of placing it there.

Are water tower enthusiasts at the same level as the creepy train enthusiasts?

I don't know it's probably a fine line. On the one hand the massive raise in pressure the last time my water company built a tower was life changing but I've never felt the need to video tape a water tower and I have done that to trains LOL In my defense the tape was used to amuse an obsessed 4 year old so that I could get 10 minutes to myself to take a shower ;)

If you do this:

Just..Some people blow my mind.

Nope, never did that. Once I had one full VHS tape of trains and train shows I had accomplished my mission. I didn't care what trains they were.

I was going to say blimp enthusiasts can be weird, but that train video takes the cake. But I'm a blimp and train enthusiast.

About the base, the CP tower actually has a nice texture molded into the concrete, it is not the flat concrete that was used in the example picture that someone posted.

Really weird - the script is almost exactly the same as this one:

This guy is in NY - and either someone copied the script, or that's just how they all are.

They're seriously some of the creepiest people I've ever seen.

There's a ton of them for the CP&LE and the KI&MV Railroads...

I have a couple friends who worked on the CP&LE and they use to talk about the weird groupies that would hangout near the Mean Streak crossing to try and get a chance to talk to my friends while the locomotive was sitting there waiting for passengers. They would see the same people all summer long just waiting at the crossings to watch them go by.

I mean there's a cool bit of trains thinking that hey all it's doing is burning dead compressed plant & animal life & boiling water to move several tons worth of weight.

But that's about it...

THAT HERITAGE UNIT THOUGH

Trains are pretty cool, and I find them interesting if there's information to be had... but I'm not a train lover, or train enthusiast. I'd love to take a tour of Disney's trains and see how they are maintained and operated, but I'm not even close to caring most of the time.

You can do that! They have a morning tour you can take to see how all of it operates.

Oh no! The water tower was surrounded by a giant tarp, a shroud of secrecy. What could be happening behind the curtain? Lemon Chill Guy says they are painting it. It will soon be revealed as resembling a giant Poke-Man character.