N scale Wooden Water Tank

N scale Wooden Water Tank, 50,000 gallons, with pump house. The Great Northern Railway Historical Society Company Store is proud to offer this 50,000-gallon wood water tank, with pump house, custom made from official GN drawings by Monroe Models in N scale. The oldest drawings of 50,000-gallon water tanks available to us date to 1881 from the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba. Our straight sided tank is based on 1915 drawings and available evidence is that straight sided tanks became standard for new construction in 1915. Such water tanks were used all over the Great Northern as the typical branch line water tank. On a more or less flat line they were placed about 20 miles apart, while on a mountain grade, eight to ten miles was the limit of safe spacing between tanks. Available evidence suggests that before 1918 some tanks were painted red, and others green, both with black bands. After April 1918 tanks were painted mineral brown. On May 1, 1928 the standard color was changed to li