Radio base station - 7
Replicating this requires nothing more than cementing a
white metal casting to the enclosure. A Scale Structures
#2467 window air conditioner provides a one-piece casting
small enough to look appropriate without overpowering the
front of the enclosure.
Make a sign board
The final step in creating our base station vignette is to
add a small sign giving a hint to why this particular lineside
installation is there. Creating a plain alpha-numeric sign sim-
ilar to the one mounted to the Norfolk Southern enclosure
is easy using a home computer with a spreadsheet program.
All it requires is choosing the correct font, then typing in the
characters several times using varying sizes such as 8, 9, and
14
14: Each photoetched metal kit provides 3 styles of
large antennas that can be easily modified into smaller
railroad band VHF antennas by simply trimming the
thin metal then mounting the antennas to the lattice
frame of the tower.
MRH-Jan 2014
