Bachmann coaling tower kit bash

Did this post before but didn’t have description or pictures. early evening coalingorginialsizingback sidechutegandy dancerBack in the early days of “G” scale Bachmann brought out a remote control battery powered 4-6-0 with plastic track and one of the want to be big box stores had about 30 of the sets left over after Christmas, the word was out, don’t waste your money. So they were given a stiff discount and the feeding frenzy began, I got 2 of the sets, included track (junk) engine/tender, box car, flat car, wood sided gondola and caboose, kit bash heaven. At that time Bachmann decided that they weren’t selling because there was no buildings, so in some of the sets they packed one of their O scale coaling towers and resampled the instructions with “G”. Barely tall enough to drop coal in a short tender, walk ways too narrow and mini stairs. I finally dug it out of my save for later box and checked around to see if anyone else had any experience with them, a few had and sent pictures, so I set forth on my build. I added a upper floor to the bin and beefed up the beams, to add bulk, adding bolt castings to the beams and made a building for it to sit on much like pictures I had seen. The building was made out of part of a Pola building that had been broken in a storm, m