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An overview of G Tower, displayed at a recent Fairfax Station Museum setup...

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by Matt Guey-Lee

This module was thought up on a sleepless night. I started think about how to make a four track line with some industrial spurs, a blue option track, and a mountain line. I knew I had to get started build it the next day. After doing an inventory of the materials I had already I made a list and went to the hardware store. I started cutting the wood as soon as I got home. By noon I had the wood work done. I then had to wait for the paint to dry. By dinner time I had road bed a track glued down on the Orange, Red, Yellow and Blue lines.

The scene is base loosely on the Pennsylvania main line from New York to Washington in it's current state. The main lines are all concrete ties with turnouts and industrial tracks as wood ties. This is prototypical of railroad that use concrete ties. The module includes a cross over from the westbound local track (orange) to the westbound express track (red). It has a blue line spur to the blue line option and a couple of tracks that go to the engine house. When the option track is not being used it serves as a holding track for stuff that is being repaired. The mountain line was built so that trains disappear into the trees and then reappear in the middle. The tower is made by Atlas and the engine house is made by Bachmann. Both structures where repainted from the original colors so that they don't look exactly the same as the ones everyone else has.