Coal tower ladder

A ladder from plasti-strut will work. May want to paint a matching color.http://www.ebay.com/itm/Plastr...rksid=p2054897.l4276

I would offer the same item. The only thing I'd say is the manufacture is Plastruct and you can buy direct from Plastruct.com.   Great folks to deal with and I deal with them a LOT!!

Thank you both for this suggestion.  I will follow up tommorrow with my LHS to see if they have it or can order it.

I looked again at the picture it appears to be a set of stairs.  However I am sure a ladder would work as well.  I might check Plastruct website to see if they have stair case piece.

Plastruct sells stairs too.......I am working on a Plasticville coaling tower right now....your missing 'steps' are the type that are not pure stair steps.....not pure ladder. I'd go with ladder as stairs will take up a LOT of space if set at the proper 45 degrees......maybe 12 inches or more.

Jeb, I have two local sources for Plastistruct material including my LHS.  No rush to get these parts.

Dave, where the coal tower is, I have alot of space so the 12 inches won't be a problem, and may fill some area up in my new installed yard.

Granted the Plasticville structure isn't as fancy as ones I see advertised in back of OGR, but for few bucks spent at train show for the two kludged into one, I will take it.

"If it looks like a coal tower, quacks like a coal tower, and walks like a coal tower, then its a coal tower on my layout"

rrman;

I agree, I had that coaling tower on my layout for years.

Trick for not eating a ton of space with the stairs, Turn them to run along the side of the tower.

The original goes straight but it is pretty steep.

It would Never pass code these days.

Note, one of these days I'm going to grab the topper kit I've seen for these, makes a big improvement in how they look.

Nothing wrong with Plasticville stuff!!! I am kit bashing mine and will post soon....but they can be turned into a nice layout addition.

What is the topper kit you are referring to? Part number, vendor?

Here ya go...

Mount Blue Link

Go to the O structures listing, item #1016.

Notice, also, their improvement on the PV truss bridge, item #1035-O. (It says "TBA" for price, but the website also sez it was last updated 1 year ago.)

Both of these items first gained fame when offered through MicroMark several years ago.  M/M dropped them...dunno why?...but Mount Blue was the mfr, anyway.

Check out their O products...pretty cool.

I've built the PV coal tower with the topper...added some details, lights, painted, weathered.  Looks nice...small footprint helps when loco terminal space is at a premium on the layout.

I thought Mount Blue was on the scenery source listings, but I can't find them.  I'll contact Dave Gauss to have it added.

KD

Good kit....pretty easy to make your own if so inclined......

You just cut the peaked sides off the kit and replace it with this new roof. Does make a nice change. Will post more later as I progress......

I modified my PV tower with the Mount Blue topper, also.  As Russell sez, though, that ladder/stairway from the ground up to the first level is a killer!  I almost get vertigo looking at it and thinking about the poor hogger who would have to make that climb...in wind, rain, snow...whatever!

I've had my eye on this item from MicroMark...

MicroMark Stairway Link

I'd like to someday soon wrap a couple of flights of this neat item around the tower, adding some strip stock railings, to get my guys up to that first platform more safely...'to code', if you will.  I like the look of the 3-stringer stairs.

FWIW...

KD