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Here are some Pennsy tower shots...

If you've been in this hobby for a long time and are a PRR fan, you are probably familiar with this tower on the left. This was built from a classic Quality Craft kit released years ago. I bought mine in the back of the Blue hall at York many years ago. It sat in the box for at least 30 years until I finally assembled it a few years ago. To the right is an old beat up picture I have of the prototype tower at "Mifflin" interlocking in central PA. The model is actually based on "Jacks" tower about 25 miles to the west, accounting for the differences in the window arrangement and other details, but it is pretty close in appearance to Mifflin tower. My model is pretty much the stock kit, but I scratch built the correct tapered chimney and fully detailed the interior.

Other details in the scene are the classic PRR  pneumatic piping to operate the switches in the interlocking, the air storage tanks, and the line poles I had manufactured and marketed as a Weaver product...dies now sold to Atlas, but I still have been unable to get them to put them back into production despite repeated requests.

Hope you like this weeks pics!

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Hey Neal,

Very nice rendition. Is the prototype on fire?

Dave

OGR Publishing, Inc., 1310 Eastside Centre Ct, Suite 6, Mountain Home, AR 72653
800-980-OGRR (6477)
www.ogaugerr.com

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