All the best Western films show a steam train pulling up at a water tower, some bloke jumps out, pulls the hose-arm thing over the engine, pulls the rope and water floods into the thirsty beast.
But how did that water tower get filled in the first place? It's in the middle of nowhere. Some earlier train filled it maybe... but then how did *it* get water and... etc
Maybe they never really existed..
Cue Western music as train puffs away into the distance.