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Hell Gate bridge with no catenary? Sacrilege!!!
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Oh, I suppose we can forgive the lack of catenary. In actual fact if we wanted scale authenticity that O Gauge engine should be an N Gauge one!
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That and be wide enough for four tracks. 
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Paper? I’d swear that was tinplate! Great job Becky!
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Nice!
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I always liked the side rod action on these. Also, on the prewar 1664, which due to being 2-4-2 had some different things going on than it’s 1666 sibling the 2-6-2
Looks close enough to me for it to count.
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Becky, is that bridge built from a “kit”?
The Hellgate? Nope. I found photos just about everywhere from eBay to TCA to forums like this one of almost all the component parts and printed black and white templates to the correct size to transfer to the cardstock and poster board sheets. The towers and base had foam core skeletons.
It’s long gone by the way. But I was never 100% happy with it, especially the side panels of the main arch. The poster board just wasn’t strong enough to hold everything vertical as a single layer. But rebuilding is an option because I still have all the photos etc I used.
Every building on this layout was built by yours truly including some of my own design. Even the lamp posts attached to the station terrace. Those were various bits of piping and plumbing washers, grommets, paper brads, even tips of syringes acting as the bulb sockets.
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There is no end of your cleverness, Becky!
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The skyscrapers in the background are really impressive.
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Thanks! I enlarged most of them from extremely basic and tiny paper model kits from various sources. Most were only intended to be about 4 inches tall as designed, so enlarging them to 3 foot models was a bit tricky.
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