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I used to call these signal towers as a kid. You find them near railyards where operators can flip levers and change signals down the track for engineers to follow. 

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With the very limited space I have on my Small Door Layout I needed something narrow and tall. Keeping this to just 8 studs wide allows me to slip it between any two parallel rails. I kept the detail to a minimum but the part count is still 950. 

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Here's a link to a good article about one of these towers that was replicated.  https://heritagerail.org/2015/08/monticello-replicates-an-interlocking-tower/

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Here's a link to a good wiki page.  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlocking

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I'll upload the .XML file to my Bricksafe page soon. Hope you like!

 

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@sed6 nice building, but I feel I should point out the bottom floor is normally filled with the mechanisms for the levers & equipment above (late steam era and beyond electric/pneumatic switches have reduced this need somewhat) which is why there's staircases on the outside.

Only large build towers/boxes (and modern ones) feature internal access, like the Harris tower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_Switch_Tower

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10 hours ago, Matt Dawson said:

@sed6 nice building, but I feel I should point out the bottom floor is normally filled with the mechanisms for the levers & equipment above (late steam era and beyond electric/pneumatic switches have reduced this need somewhat) which is why there's staircases on the outside.

Only large build towers/boxes (and modern ones) feature internal access, like the Harris tower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_Switch_Tower

You are absolutely correct! This building was a bit of a compromise which started with no room for external stairs. Or at least I couldn't come up with a compact enough design that I liked. So the stairs went inside. For those not "in the know" it just looks like an office area downstairs and machines upstairs, perfectly acceptable for what I was going for. 

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