Take a walk around the Modutrak layout, one module at a time.
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Tower A-68
Tower A-68 is a five-foot module with an interlocking. Two crossovers and a third track sit near one end, guarded by a small tower beside the tracks. A big crop field fills the public side, and a paved road crosses the tracks near the other end. The turnouts are Atlas Code 55 #10s. Tower A-68…
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Algae Pond
Algae Pond is a five-foot module almost entirely covered in woods. In the middle, a clearing opens up around a small, very green pond, which gives the module its name. BN green paint from Polly Scale was mixed into the resin to give the pond its typical algae bloom look. All that fertilizer from the…
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Hwy 20
The Milwaukee Road’s double track crossing Highway 20 on two black girder spans just north of Sturtevant, Wisconsin, with old-time billboards, a creek culvert and crop fields along a low fill.
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Kraut Road
A country road crossing the Milwaukee Road’s double main at grade in Franksville, Wisconsin, with the FRANKSVILLE warehouse on its siding, a brick stack and water tank, a pond, and a dry creek with a concrete lane bridge.
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Sturtevant
The Milwaukee Road junction at Sturtevant, Wisconsin, on one five-foot module: the turreted 1901 depot, the branch and water tower, two crossovers and the main-line coaling tower.
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Oakwood
A single five-foot module of a quiet country station on a double-track main, based on the Milwaukee Road’s Oakwood station in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.