New Unionville & Western Railroad

Scale Structures along the line

MONON's Midland Tower by Mike Jenkins

This is a picture of the Midland Tower at the junction of the MONON's I & L Division and the Southern Indiana (later Milwaukee Latta Sub).  Mike Jenkins is building us a 1/4 scale model of this structure to use as our dispatchers office on the New Unionville and Western Railroad.  See pictures below. 

Mike started out with a standard modern crossing signal cabinet that came from Bloomington Indiana when CSX abondoned and removed the railroad through town.  This cabinet was at the crossing on Walnut St. which protected the east leg of the wye in Mcdoel Yard.

Mike is currently working on the brick face to be applied to the first story of the tower.

The beginning of this project was to cut the holes for the windows.  Mike then custom made all of the window sashes. Hemade hundreds of pieces of wood for the siding and used Lexan for the windows. 

MIke gives scale to the size of the great looking tower.

                  More pictures to come later.