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I'd guess that at least half of the O-gauge transmission towers MTH has made are not on train layouts, but on display or used as training aids in electric utilities and at power system consulting, construction, and maintenance services companies.  We have about a dozen around the office where I work.  

 

Aging power infrastructures are a really big deal now nationwide.   Its a subject dear to my heart, too - a did a book about it about twelve years ago, before it became such a big deal and I just completed an updated second edition of it that will be coming out at the end of the year.   Turns out rusted old towers are maybe the most pressing problem.  So I thought we needed several more realistic examples at work of what these things can look like in the real world, after 60 years in service, light rust everywhere, nearly rusted through in places, with some structural members just completely gone, and cracked foundations, with kudzu growing almost to the top, bird's nests, etc.  So I made several like this, in assembly line fashion, for various purposes at work.  Here is one i am keeping for myself. 

 

My wife liked this -- at least until she realized the kudzu was all of her dried parsley. 

Rusted transmission tower

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