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I found an old thread seeking clarification of how this is meant to work, which was marked as "answered in FAQ". As far as I can find, there's nothing in the FAQ about this archetype.
Tower Shield Training (Ex): At 3rd level, a tower shield specialist gains armor training as normal, but while he employs a tower shield, the armor penalty is reduced by 3 and the maximum Dexterity bonus allowed by his armor increases by 2. The benefit increases every four levels thereafter as per standard armor training; if the tower shield specialist is not employing a tower shield, the benefits to armor training revert to the normal bonuses.
The wording of this ability is highly confusing. As best as I can tell, it's increasing the Max Dex of the character's armour by 2 beyond what Armour training would normally do if he's using a tower shield, and just gives the normal armour training bonuses when he isn't using a tower shield. But it doesn't appear to do anything about the tower shield's max dex of 2, making it largely useless.
My best guess as to what this ability is intended to say is that it grants armour training as normal, and in addition, changes the tower shield to a max dex of 4 and an armour check penalty of -7.