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WB Tower, Brunswick, MD
This classic B&O tower is of one of several standard designs used
by the railroad around the turn of the century (1900-1915). It
was originally painted in the traditional cream color used on so many
B&O structures. However, some time after the B&O/C&O
affiliation in the 1960's it was painted into this light gray with dark
gray trim scheme. By 1982 the paint was peeling and around 1983
got repainted into this same scheme. I modeled it as it appeared
in 1982. The tower remains open to this day, the last operating
tower on the East End. It has been modified however. The
stair case remains in the same place, but the door to the upper level
is now in line with the stair case, not offset to the right as
originally built and modeled here. It is also now covered in red
vinyl siding.
Unlike many B&O towers, WB's identification letters make
sense. WB stood for West Brunswick. There were originally
two towers in Brunswick, EB or East Brunswick was the other, but it was
removed in the early part of the century. Below the pictures of
the finished tower are two of it during construction.
