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The cast resin kit of the gas station is by same standards. To keep it more uniform, the
Randy Brown (AMS). His kit includes not same DB25 plugs were used with a different
only the gas station building, but the pumps wire arrangement.
and the island as well. The gray distribution Toggle switches are used to turn the
office and three factories: the tall one near the blocks on and off and are housed in a 12” X
viaduct, the one with the tall cylindrical 16” wood case that hangs from the back of
smoke stack, and the one with three roofs are the module from two eye bolts screwed into
all plastic kits by Kibri. the wood frame of the module. All the
The large station attached to the train shed switches are powered and are connected in-
is a heavily modified Kibri kit, made to look side the wood box. DB25 connectors are
more American verses European. The train used to plug the wires from the wood box to
shed on this module is completely scratch the module. All power goes into the module,
built using Märklin bridge sides, pieces of sty- diverted to the wood box, then out again to
rene, a sheet of clear acetate and various brass the assigned function.
rods and tubes. The train shed itself is mod- The ballast is Woodland Scenics’ fine grit
eled to resemble the downtown Milwaukee Buff color (B1737) and fine grit Brown color
Amtrak station with the top of the shed based (B1372) mixed together in a 50/50 ratio. The
on the old St. Louis shed. Removable pins are grass is fine in Burnt Grass color (T1344),
used to hold the top of the shed in place, mak- also from Woodland Scenics. Architrees pro-
ing it more convenient for cleaning and main- duced the trees that were used on this layout.
tenance. Kevin has a very unique way of weathering
This module uses MRC Railpower 1370 as his ballast. Once the ballast is laid and dried,
its power source and runs DC with blocks. he used Rit fabric dye (black, coco and
Two are used to power the inner two tracks brown) to weather it. He mixes the dye with
and two are used as the power source for the water, dips his paintbrush into it and dabs
mainlines. Kevin used the Z Bend Standard along the ballast, “dirtying” it up.
DB25s for the mainlines so they are able to be Just as in real life, there is quite a bit of
hooked up to other modules that follow the fencing around houses, factories and the cem-
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