Hello from Murphysboro Illinois!

Well, not really. As I have mentioned before, the main Omega Scale Railway module is modeled after Murphysboro, Illinois, with a number of modifications. Specifically, the module is twenty-two percent of a mile long. This leaves less room than you would thing, even for The Omega Scale Railway with it’s great size of 1/384. Therefore, the freight house has been modified also. There are two reasons for this. First is that the original real freight house had pavement right up to the vehicle loading door side. As a matter of note, the passenger depot had the rear wall set at the pavement line as well. This possibly can be seen even today. The second reason is that the few photos that I could find were from only one perspective and your dear old omscaler had to interpolate the actual dimensions to work from. See, didn't I tell you that working on these projects was fun! Having fun as ususal, until next time, omscaler