Can someone point me to an example were a single water tower (steam locomotive era) serviced 2 mainline tracks?
Perhaps at a wye?
Perhaps the water tower had two discharge nozzles, one either side??
I’m thinking the most likely scenario would be a standing water pipe placed between two parallel tracks - a multi-track main or a main and a siding. The water tower could be located a bit back from the tracks.
Don’t know of a specific example, but heck… there’s a prototype for everything!
Jim
Not on a mainline, but Northern Pacific’s Hill Ave. ore yard in Superior WI had a water tower between the yard tracks and the line going up to their ore dock. It had spouts on both sides so could serve steam engines on either track.
An Internet image search for “railroad two spout water tank” yields a few examples.
By the way, in real life railroads usually opted for separate water cranes at the necessary trackside locations and a water tower located elsewhere nearby as convenient.
Quite true, and some of those water towers also supplied water for track pans, on the roads where pans were used.
Three of my layout’s water towers are directly on the single-tracked mainline, while other areas use standpipes supplied from a larger tower at a somewhat removed location.
For example, in Mount Forest the two temporarily-positioned stand pipes shown here (from Tichy kits) are supplied from the large water tower in the centre-distance of the photo…
…I may add another standpipe somewhere within the same town, which extends for some distance, out of view, to the left.
In Dunnville, one standpipe is quite close to the water tower…
I am trying to find a photo of a two spout water tower that was just down the track from a station. Up past the station were two standpipes that could fill a couple of engines at the same time while the train was stopped at the station.
You can use a lot of imagination and do what you please, it probably exists somewhere.
The PRR and B&O used “water bridges” in congested areas to speed up the watering process.
PRR_plug1 by Edmund, on Flickr
I scratched one using a few girder components and Tichy spout pieces:
IMG_9771_fix_w by Edmund, on Flickr
IMG_9766_fix_w by Edmund, on Flickr
IMG_9760_fix_w by Edmund, on Flickr
There were a few photos on Flickr showing a present-day signal bridge over the N-S former PRR main that still had the rigging for the water spouts attached!
190516_2_lilly by lmyers83, on Flickr
Photo by L.R. Myers
Thank You, Ed
Cumbres & Toltec at Chama has a double sided water tank
I had one of those water bridges on my last layout,…servicing the multiple steam locos as they left the yard. Mine was a simple IHC one, not near as nice as that one you have.
I think I will use one of them one my new layout to service the steam locos leaving the coaling tower. Maybe I’ll put up the plastic one to start out, then make nicer one later on when I get time.
I have a wye turnout in my upper track plan near the logging area. I thought I might locate a single big wooden water tower between the tracks with spours reaching out to both tracks. Just wanted to be sure it was possibility.