Italian Tutor Builds N Scale
U.S. Water Tower

As a scale modeler who has returned to the hobby after a long absence I can really respect one who did model railroading as a kid grew out of it only to return with gusto 30 to 40 years later.

It is an honor to present the plans for a 1920s Water Tower along with a tutorial in the www.scale-modelers-handbook.com Download Center If you don’t have the password,Visit the About Download Center page.

I am also fortunate to get to know Enzo Fortuna in Italy who originated this work and provides the ability for model railroaders to recreate it in their own scale.

His project is an N-Scale 1920s railside water tower for which he worked up two pages of plans and constructed the Tutorial in the Download Center. I was also fortunate enough to get to know Enzo Fortuna in Italy who originated this work and provides the ability for model railroaders to recreate it in their own scale.

Enzo is a fascinating person from the looks of his website as he explains how he returned to N Scale modeling...here let me let him tell you:

"Last year I help my mother to sell the city house when my father die, and, moving the stuff in the cantin.... Whau! ... I've recognize an old box, where I've saved some of my trains when, 30 years ago, I go in US. With some emotion I open it, and..

Let you image my face when I look at an old dusted Rivarossi "Big Boy”, two 0-4-0 switchers (one "camelback" and one with tender), a dismantled (and really horrible) Mikado and a little box with all parts of an Indiana Harbor 0-8-0 that I start to convert to a Consolidation, plus some spare parts from a DB Pacific (waiting for a US conversion too). Have a speed check of the stuff I'm speacking..

Old memories of a gone time .... BUT ... maybe I can give live again to these old friends?"

He went on to describe his Water Tower project and invite others to make use of his work: A Water Tower like thousands you find near the country completely scratch builded in real ... wood (guess yes?)

You need just some patience and really cheap stuff's to build a "reasonable" model and have the satisfaction to say: "I've done by myself! ... It is not a Kit"Download and print the drawings (Acrobat reader PDF) - Scale of drawings is 1:160 (N scale), if you are interested on HO conversion.... I must think a minute about photo-copy machine settings ............OK! To convert from N scale to another when copying, use these percentages; O scale 333.3% - S scale 250% - HO scale 183.7%

You would do yourself a favor by visiting and bookmarking Enzo's website for a more leisurely review of his research and planning as he develops his rendition of the San Francisco Bay area and Santa Cruz mountains.