In a yard area the coaling station/tower would be placed in the engine service aera, at or near the water tank, ash pit, and the sandhouse and usually on the same track as them. Often this was on a spur coming off the lead track to the turntable. The spur would be double ended so that the loco having left the roundhouse could be fueled, watered, sanded, lubricated and cleaned out before proceeding to its assigned run.