Looking good!
There are lots of modelers on here that make bridges. I’m sure they will be chiming in.
Mike.
Yes! A good set of plans and a bandsaw were key to making mine. I found the prototype plans to be very handy in this case. I also found a set of plans on Feebay for the deck truss below. The trestle plans I found on Grandt lines website (https://www.grandtline.com/tips-techniques/resource-gallery/) which were incredibly helpful. The only difference is that I had to figure out to make it curved instead of a straight trestle.
Nice work. I’d like to see it placed and supporting a train in time.
I have scratchbuilt only one bridge, a trestle. It’s on its second layout.
14 years ago, until the spring of 2012, it looked like this:
Now it looks like this (haven’t learned how to image this layout yet, the correct angles and lighting, so…)
I scratchbuilt a trestle for my On30 layout:
This is an older photo - the scenery around it has now been completed. I used a trestle jig from Black Bear Construction to make the supports, and scratchbuilt the deck.
Here is my version of the PRR Vertical Lift Bridge in downtown Chicago. I kitbashed the Arched Pratt bridge from 3 kits and scratch built the towers and bridge tender’s shack.
Rich
Most impressive guys!
Yes, I agree…some ‘serious modeling’ going on there. [:)]
I was going to ask prototype or model. I do both. Most of the bridges on my layout are scratch built. One kit and two kitbashed.
Yup. Scratchbuilt, kitbashed, and kits. All of them have scratchbuilt abutments.
DSC03127 (2) by wp8thsub, on Flickr
DSC02751 by wp8thsub, on Flickr
A gift from my good friend Logan of Severna Park MR Club
Nice!Here it is on a couple of bridge piers…
I like long-span bridges. Here are three.
Robert
This was my grandest bridge.
I built it for the Scale Rails of Southwest Florida N scale train show layout back in 1992.
I have gotten lazy in my old age, and I am buying brass bridges.
-Kevin
Wow guys!!!
Those are a lot of very impressive bridges![bow][tup][wow][yeah]
Cheers!!
Dave
I agree, Dave, lots of great-looking bridges.
I do scratchbuilt footings, piers, and abutments, but most of my bridges are kitbashed from various manufacturers’ bridge kits…
…but this little concrete arch is the only completely-scratchbuilt one I’ve built…
Wayne
Yes I want to build one of those Central Valley or Atlas bridge kits!
Doing the tie plates. 
Decided to paint it gray…