Vincent Hill Station water tower
Posted by: 
chaosmanor
N 34° 30.070 W 118° 07.156
11S E 397246 N 3818295
This appears to have once been a working water tank; it has been converted into a "billboard" for the nearby Vincent Hill Station Restaurant & Saloon.
Waymark Code: WM8670
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 02/06/2010
Views: 7
The street address is 553 Sierra Highway, Acton (or Palmdale; USPS is non-committal); the cross-street is Mountain Springs Road. Closest off-ramp from CA 14 is "Pearblossom Highway/Angeles Forest Highway". Take Sierra Highway southerly for not quite a mile to the restaurant, on the right. The tower is in a vacant lot (fenced and gated but usually open) where numerous big rigs are often parked. If the gate is open, as it usually is, entry is legal.
You can see this tower easily from the Antelope Valley Freeway (CA 14). It is a free-standing, corrugated-metal tank, on a wooden platform with cross-member supports, all on a solid concrete platform that is about three feet high. There are some concrete-and-brick steps a few feet to the east: no idea what these are for, as they don't connect to anything. Perhaps they were from when this tower was working. Or maybe they are from some ongoing (or abandoned) attempt to do something more with this tower. We suspect that this tank was originally not on this spot. The Union Pacific tracks run a tenth of a mile or so to the east, and there used to be a watering stop nearby in the days of steam engines: the station's name was "Vincent". The tank could have been moved from that stop, and the rest of the support built for it, or even scavenged from the old stop.
The restaurant has a decided railroad theme, with a number of old railroad cars and engines behind it, on sections of track, and more track and railroad equipment in front. The cars are open to the public to look at and photograph, but entering any of them is prohibited.
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