Cell Phone Towers are here… Like it or not!

Cell phones are a part of our life these days and unfortunately so are the ugly towers and antennas. I have created a 100 ft steel cell phone tower with two tiers of antennas and several individual antennas for mounting on top or side of existing structures. These would be appropriate for any route modeled in the modern era. These files should be in the library Monday or Tuesday.

Cal Rasmussen
Beaverton, ORColumbia Gorge Route (The Dalles Dam 90% done)

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Looks good! Just what a modern city needs!------------------------------------------------------------I'll never let go of the railroad that inspired me to involved with trains, the Union Pacific!

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Great Cal!No cell phones in Sea View. Not exactly what you had in mind, but I sure have a good use for those. Thanks!Bill Burnett

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Bill, you sure there are no cell phones in Sea View? I thought a few pf those palm trees look like the disguised cell phone towers we see all over southern California.Yep, here they disguise them as palm trees!I actually saw a couple up in Washington disguised as evergreen types....

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Steve,There are cameras hidden in some of those palm trees, but none of the trees are cell phone towers. For SV3, I will need to turn Cal's towers from vertical to horizontal for the use I am thinking of. In that case I can't disguise them as trees. Bill Burnett

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Bill,
Drive up GA 400 near Northridge and there is a Cell Phone tower disguised as a Pine Tree on teh northbound side of the highway. Used to see it when I had to commute up there.
-- John Tackett --

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Its when you see trees disquised as cell towers that you KNOW youve had one too many eh cal?Dave

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John, Drive up GA 400? No thanks. I think I once saw a cell phone tower disguised as a giant fowl. Bill Burnett

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Humm. Now I have to go back and look at that again. Would be a natural now that I think about it.
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well, they most not be disguised very well, because everyone can see there actually cell towers and not trees, LOL

Shawn "IcyFire" Kenselaar
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In my hometown here in Utah, they built a cell tower disguised as a tree. It would have worked except that they must have used the "redwood" or "sequoia" model used up in the PNW because the darn thing looks so out of place here in the HIGH DESERT. I can't believe they couldn't make it look more like a blue spruce or something... if it was surrounded by evergreens that grow here in Utah, that would help. In the wintertime, the cell tower is the only tree on that street with "leaves" still on it. You can't help but notice it.Makes it easy to model in MSTS, though... just get any tree that obviously doesn't belong and you would never see anywhere else in your route, and put one (1) somewhere next to a city street.- dispatcher618

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You should see the Church tower next to the freeway in North Seattle that has a cell antenna in the bell tower.Richard
Bellevue

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The church is probably getting paid some good $$$ for it.My wife's company has a fake palm tree/cell phone tower in their equipment yard, and the company gets quite a check every couple months from the cell phone company...

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Bill, even if you turned it on its side, I don't think it would work as a paddlewheel on a riverboat! Whatcha gonna do with that 100' driveshaft?
Cal Rasmussen
Beaverton, ORColumbia Gorge Route (The Dalles Dam 90% done)

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Cal,I will need to test my idea first. Nothing really that dramatic.Bill

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