Railway Water Tower Model with Track STL

A steam-era trackside water tower on its own base with a short length of track alongside. The round tank is built from vertical staves held by three iron hoops, topped with a shallow conical roof and finial. It stands on four braced timber legs with cross bracing, a tall access ladder up one side, and a curved filling spout that swings out over the track to fill a locomotive tender. Water towers like this stood beside lines and in yards wherever steam engines needed to refill, from the nineteen…

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