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Re: Water/Coal Tower
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 22 Oct 1998 05:42:00 GMT
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Steve Berry writes:
> Hi!
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> I'm not sure if I'm using the correct steam-era lingo, but has anyone
successfully constructed an authentic looking water tower? How about a coal
tower? I'd like a place for my 4-4-0 to stop for refueling. I've looked at
various pictures of water and coal towers in Model Railroader, but I've had a
hard time figuring out how to build them with LEGO bricks. The rounded nature
of the water towers present a bit of a design challenge.
A coal tower is on my list of projects. For the rounded nature of the water
tower, try the big round bricks (I think there is a 4x4 quarter round that
makes about the right diameter)(1), or build an octagonal one, (prototypical)
use the 2x2/1x4 plate hinges, or build a square one (also prototypical)
1 - 8 diameter circle seems about right, these water towers typically have a
much larger diameter than the boiler diameter of a steam engine, which in
minifig scale seems to be 4.
++Lar
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| For a water tower - has anybody tried using the oversize barrels that come with many wild west sets? ======== Posted via the LUGNET discussion group web interface ======== (URL) Search, Read, Post, or Watch Traffic (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Or use the diagonal bricks, like (URL). But it would take a lot of those. If the tank can be 6H, use castle corner-walls. Steve (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| Hi! I'm not sure if I'm using the correct steam-era lingo, but has anyone successfully constructed an authentic looking water tower? How about a coal tower? I'd like a place for my 4-4-0 to stop for refueling. I've looked at various pictures of (...) (26 years ago, 21-Oct-98, to lugnet.trains)
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