I may be a bit dense, so perhaps someone can explain to me the logic of parking the tank car full of water at TOM. Unless a locomotive happens to be nearby, I don't understand how that can help the Alna Fire Department, since the siding is inaccessible to normal vehicles. If the train is not running, there would be no means to move the tank car to a more accessible location. Perhaps Paul Horky has a better idea -- place the unused water tank somewhere close to the yet-to-be-built fire road and use the tank car to transport water to it. Add a valve and fittings near the bottom of the tank so fire vehicles can draw from it and a bottom drain to empty it before winter.
However, some thought may be given to outfitting the tank car with flood nozzles that would allow a good wetting-down of the roadbed on the mountain a couple of times a day during periods of high fire potential. In addition, we may want to consider a clamp-on spark arrestor to be placed on the locomotives' stacks during those times. See photos of B&H nos. 7 and 8 at times. Finally, we may want to consider having a track car and our fire car follow trains by 10 minutes during extreme fire danger periods, such as is done on the Durango & Silverton and Cumbres and Toltec. We also did this years ago at WK&S.