I cannot seem to find this anywhere.  As far as I can tell, wooden water tanks were tapered, being smaller at the top than at the bottom.  The question is, how much?  I can find photos of water tanks, and drawings, but they always seem to indicate a single diameter.  Even the ICC valuation drawings I have only give a single diameter, though the photos show what appears to be an obvious taper.

Can anyone tell me what the taper was?  If it matters, I'm interested in Southern Ry., Danville & Western Ry., or perhaps Fairbanks Morse practices.

I am posting this announcement about A-Track, a free easy-to-use software application for NCE DCC systems, with the generous permission of Joe Fugate, and the hope that some of the MRH community may find it useful. Any comments or queries are very welcome.

Terry Chamberlain

With my locomotive close to being completed, I already decided and will have a few great industries that real railroads service: quarry, brick factory, concrete plant, brewery, steel mill, lumber company, a scrap yard, and a charcoal factory. 

In terms of importance, steel mill, the quarry, scrap (scraps go to the steel mill), brick plant, concrete plant, lumber company, and charcoal company.

I do have a few names for some of the industris:

Coldington Steel

founded in 1872, open at current location in 1925

6 tracks in the Station. Double main heading out of town.  Double main heading down into staging representing places far-far-away. and two tracks leading to maintenance, refueling and possible storage of passenger equipment.  I also wanted no less than #8 turnouts so passenger trains would roll easy pushed in, or pulled out.