Even though I already have a Walthers water tower on my layout, I’m looking maybe purchasing and building a craftsman wood water tower pictured below:
This particular one was used on the CB&Q at London Mills, IL.
Is this design unique to the CB&Q? Or was it common and generic enough and used by others railroads - e.g. the New York Central. To me, it looks fairly generic but I just wanted to be sure.
Thanks!
Tom
Tom,
To my untrained eye, this Webshot link to the water tower at Strasburg, PA looks like a similar design, although I don’t believe it’s wood. The railroad interchanged with the PRR but I’m not sure who designed it. Is that enough disclaimers?[:)]
There are quite a few very similar to the one you are showing here in Colorado. Some of them are still in use on the Cumbres and Toltec, Durango and Silverton. These are narrow guage but they are very large and look very much like the one you are talking about.
Only when you get up into the far north where you find water towers becoming strange.
The one at Strasburg is a generic tower and works well. I gotta wonder did a wood tower stand there at one time?
Water towers are pretty nice to model as not very many people know the difference between one made here and one made over there. It’s all the same.