Help Finding a Scale Water Tower

Weaver Brass tanks are due to arrive Spring 2012.

I had the same need Jeff. I wanted a steam era wooden water tank which was used with a stand pipe a short distance away. I had not seen what I really wanted so I decided to scratch build my own. About three months worth of evenings later...




Good luck

Bob

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Originally posted by flanger:
I decided to scratch build my own. About three months worth of evenings later...

Bob,
Absolutely beautiful work! Flawless!
Thanks for sharing.

Walther's made a O-scale plastic kit for a steel water tower. The kit also included two stand pipes to deliver water to steam locomotives. It is no longer in production but perhaps a want ad on the Buy/Sell board will turn one up. I have one in my freight yard and it looks really good. This is not a photo of mine, but it does show the tank and the two stand pipes.

The Weaver brass water tank thar Mike CT pictured is right out of the Pennsy play book! What looks like feet at the base is actually the underground foundation for the tank.

Ron

Jeff,
I build them from scratch to suit. I have detailed drawings of the steel water towers the PRR used on it's line. I also will build any water tower that you can provide a picture of. You can contact me at Graz4tanks@aol.com

Alan Graziano

Thanks Pete!

Bob,

Very nice!

Dave

Thanks fellas! I've decided to go with the Weaver tower. I really like the look of it. I had bought a similar tower from ebay, but I just got it and it is HO scale. I should have been more careful and inquired about the scale and dimensions, but it was listed in O-Scale. Live and learn.

I came to the same conclusion Jeff, I ordered one shortly after York. I did not find anything that looked like it. If I could have found the Walthers kit I would have gone for that, I have seen the one on Bobs Layout and it looks very nice.

David Duhamel
Hand built wood tower with lighting $85
No brainer

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Originally posted by Scrapiron Scher:
David Duhamel
Hand built wood tower with lighting $85
No brainer

David Cecil
Hand built water tower with lighting.
$4.67.... hey I had to buy the 4 inch pvc conduit coupling
Tin roof-weighted stand pipe.



David

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Originally posted by Scrapiron Scher:
David Duhamel
Hand built wood tower with lighting $85
No brainer

Dave Duhamels work is outstanding and competitively priced. His structures are all made of wood (lazer cut) and put together with precison and care. Dave is one of the only sources that I trust for structures on my layout. I scratch build just about everything else.
Crecent Locomotive Works
www.locomotiveworksinc.com

Be sure to check out Daves wooden coaling towers. They are highly detailed, lighted and outstanding.

Thankz Jim

Here more pics from AltoonaModelWorks

Thank you, belatedly, for all the comments.  I did end up getting the Weaver tower.  It is nice and is exactly what I was looking for.  I agree with Dennis LaGrua above that David Duhamel's stuff is terrific.  I saw his stuff at York I in the spring. Consensus was pretty much wow, nice stuff at a great price.  A friend of mine got the cinder loader and it looks great.  I think I'll pick one up at York this month.

If any one is interested in making their own here is some instructions for the kind I have been building.  Russ