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@PRRMP54 posted:

I really like the water tank.

Family legend has it it was built using a Pablum box and the coil from a doorbell. I don't ever remember seeing the inside but I built one for my layout using the measurements from one my uncle had built. He read me the measurements over the phone on Thanksgiving day and in a week I had built one of my own using 1/4" luan, 1/2x3/4 pine strips from Hechingers, poster board, a 1/4" dowel for the spout and I wound my own coil. It was almost an exact copy of my grandfathers including the green sawdust I sprinkled on the wet paint on its base and the distinctive "clunk/buzz" of the coil activating. I never got around to building the station platform he had built (the long red structure in the back) but it is on my to build list but I'll be using commercially available wood, I can't get an orange crate like he used.



Jerry

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