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Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Water Towers

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Water Towers
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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 23:39:55 -0600
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Do not forget the Walther's Kit
It makes up into a nice water tower and is very close and in many Scales
sjh
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rob Adams 
  To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 7:28 AM
  Subject: Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Water Towers


  Tom;

  The answer may depend on which tower you are trying to replicate.   If 
  you are just trying to capture the look, then any might work.

  In my mind, the Tichy model is hands down the best kit of the three.  I 
  don't have any first-hand experience with the Plastruct kit, though 
  their kits aren't known for their detail, and the pictures I've seen 
  would probably steer me away from it.  The Walthers kit has slightly 
  "chunkier" proportions than the Tichy kit, and would be easier to 
  assemble.  The ladders and other detail parts are relatively crude.  The 
  Tichy kit has much nicer detail and has the potential to be built in 
  several different variations.  I've built three of them, (two towers 
  based on those at Burlington, and one for Centerville, IA) and all 
  turned out well.  They have excellent parts and in general, go together 
  quite well.  (I did add Grandt Line turnbuckles to the wire cross braces 
  though.)  The Tichy kit also includes a very nice water column.

  Many of the Q's steel towers had a tapered standpipe (the column that 
  extends from the tank down to the ground) .  To my knowledge, there is 
  no HO scale kit for modeling these at present.

  Thats my two cents.

  Kind regards, Rob Adams

  thommack wrote:

  >Any thoughts on which steel water tower in HO more closely resembles
  >the CB&Q prototype? My choices seem to be the Plastruct kit or the
  >newer Walthers kit. Anyone have experience with either of the two and
  >thoughts (the Walthers kits are on sale right now)?
  >
  >Tom Mack
  >Cincinnati, OH
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