dknelson My Revell tank is just shy of 2 1/8" tall. 2 inches in diameter. This is the tank itself not including the roof. That seems kind of small in 1/4" scale doesn't it? Mantua offered a similar tank that Art Curren used to use on HO building kitbashes for the roof mounted water tank. Even in HO they looked kind of small. You did not ask but in the same box was the Atlas water tank kit. It is just shy of 2 1/4" tall and very close to 2 5/8" in diameter. That seems only slightly larger than the Revell yet the difference is very noticeable, to me at least. I think it has more usable parts for your idea, and the detail seems somewhat finer. PS. I bought my Revell "4 Trackside Buildings" set in 1964 from America's Hobby Center by mail order. Price? 99 cents, sir. The all-metal Tyco 0-4-0T "Booster" kit (which I also bought) was $5.95. Even then that seemed cheap. Memory Lane indeed. Dave Nelson
My Revell tank is just shy of 2 1/8" tall. 2 inches in diameter. This is the tank itself not including the roof. That seems kind of small in 1/4" scale doesn't it?
Mantua offered a similar tank that Art Curren used to use on HO building kitbashes for the roof mounted water tank. Even in HO they looked kind of small.
You did not ask but in the same box was the Atlas water tank kit. It is just shy of 2 1/4" tall and very close to 2 5/8" in diameter. That seems only slightly larger than the Revell yet the difference is very noticeable, to me at least. I think it has more usable parts for your idea, and the detail seems somewhat finer.
PS. I bought my Revell "4 Trackside Buildings" set in 1964 from America's Hobby Center by mail order. Price? 99 cents, sir. The all-metal Tyco 0-4-0T "Booster" kit (which I also bought) was $5.95.
Even then that seemed cheap.
Memory Lane indeed.
Dave Nelson
Deano
Always thinking about my O scale 2-stall enginehouse project, I've been thinking about a water tower to add to the scene. After all, railroads didn't like to have to rely too heavily on city water supplies in the days of steam, so the shop boiler should have its own water supply. Since my Mineral Point & Northern runs from Janesville, Wisconsin, west to Platteville and north to Mineral Point and the Zinc mining area of Highland the winters were anything but gentle. In fact, Gratiot ("Gra-SHET"), WI, had a water tower completely enclosed between the rank and the ground, heated in winter. I remembered the water tower in the Revell kit for "4 Trackside Buildings" and it looked like a good size to stand near the boiler-room annex. If anyone has this model on his railroad, I'd appreciate knowing the dimensions, partucularly those of the tank itself. (It also has flat iron or steel hoops with simple tighteners to join them in instead of the usual rods, which are harder to apply--and seldom modeled.)
Thanks for your help--and a trip down Memory Lane.