Replacement Plasticville Turnpike Sign
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My O scale model train layout represents the section of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad between McKees Rocks and…
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My O scale model train layout represents the section of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad between McKees Rocks and Youngstown.
Once I had the replacement Frosty Bar Sign (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3159254) done, it was a quick job to make a new sign for the Plasticville Turnpike.
Since my layout represents the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie between McKees Rocks and Youngstown, I wanted a turnpike entrance that made sense. The Pennsylvania Turnpike and its Beaver Valley Interchange are the nearest to the P&LE track.
So with the knowledge gained by doing the new Dairy Queen sign, I again used OpenSCAD and wrote a program to create a replacement turnpike sign. The first step was to measure each piece of the sign. Then I had to pick fonts for the letters. Again, not knowing what fonts Bachmann used, I looked for something close. This time I looked on "Goggle Fonts". You can Goggle that. I found a font called "Bungee" and used that for the interchange name. For the turnpike name, I stuck with "Arial".
You can use the Customizer to make a new sign for your layout.
More details on my 3D Print web page:
http://www.silogic.com/trains/3D%20Prints.html#Turnpike
My layout web page: http://www.silogic.com/trains/layout.html
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