Thanks
That’s a Vollmer kit
never got around to weathering it
Hey Gramps, about time you put up some of your bridges. They are top shelf.[tup]
Dr. Wayne yours are top shelf too…[bow]
Very impressive bridges everyone. I seems that a model railroad is incomplete without at least one bridge, even if it’s only a culvert! Now, if I could only justify a tunnel in Southern Minnesota, then I’d be set![:D]
. You can see it in the Allen Keller Great Model railroad video series #18 & #61
Harold had the bridge built by a friend Harry McGowin it’s sub structure is Masonite 1/2" plywood and homasote he made the castings for every stone on the bridge and the top sections above the legs are individual pieces of styrene the leg sections were individually cast from had carved molds and no two legs are exactly a like. He told me the real bridge took about a year to construct the model bridge took five years. Pictures really don’t do it justice.
Corey, surely if you’re capable of re-railing a locomotive with one hand, you need to justify to no one a tunnel in Southern Minnesota, or anywhere else, for that matter. [swg] I was questioned for putting one in Southern Ontario, but it seems that the layout police are just a myth. [(-D]
Wayne
Many more great photos have been added. Nice work.
Arjay… I’m glad the rock technique worked well for you. I think your prototype, the Canyon Diablo Bridge is one of the rgeatest bridges of all time.
I’ll add more to the thread. Located in Valley Heights on my railroad is the double track mainline with a pair of basic Atlas girder bridges and also a covered bridge behind them. The waterfall is called “Standing Falls”.
Wayne, shhhh, the layout police want you to think they are a myth! Now you have me thinking of adding an arbitrary tunnel.[:D]
The scratch built arch bridge is a small replica of the Cape Cod Bridge (still unfinished). It is unique in that the Faller Car System road passes over this bridge. I used slot car track and placed heavy wire just below the surface of the slot, to accommodate Faller cars and trucks traveling in both directions between two towns. The railroad bridge in the background handles all the rail traffic on my layout, where dozens of tracks merge to pass over this single link to the two multi-switch and reverse loop sections of the DCC HO layout. Bob Hahn Click on photo to enlarge it, and then click on series of small photos to the left, to see photos of some of the rest of my layout.
I’ve seen these bridges in person and pictures don’t do them justice just like the rest of his layout…
Well, I’ve not seen them in person, but the photos are absolutely stunning: nicely composed, sharp, and with breathtaking depth-of-field, [bow] not to mention, of course, the excellent modelling.
Wayne
I have a question for all you bridge masters, when you install your bridge on your layout do you use rail-joiners to connect to the lead in tracks? I was told by one modeler that he prefers using PC ties at the end of the track that enters and exits the bridge and makes a positive electrical connection otherwise. I assume by other wise he means soldering a feed wire to the rails on the bridge track. I ask because I am currently working on a scene involving 4 bridges and negotiating the rial-joiners is a bit of a hassle but nothing major except on a wooden trestle that has hand layed track so I treat the thing like it’s made of match sticks which isn’t very much of a stretch.
Wow, nice thread with tons of inspring work. I only have one bridge with some rough scenery to show and hopefully by the end of the year will have my other bridge in to. Now if I could only settle on the scenery and glue it all down I would move on to scenicing the remainder of the layout.
I would show more but I cannot do attachments here.
John,
What was the source of the concrete foundations at the bottoms of the ME trestle legs? Are they commercially available or did you scratch build them and if so, how?
Bob
http://www.finenscale.com/architectural.html
FNA3608. There may be other items of interest there to.
I do have two highway over crossing bridges at each end of the layout. Their used as a view block.
I used rail joiners at the ends of all of my bridges, but don’t solder them in place as I do for all others on the layout. They’re there simply to keep the rails in alignment. As I mentioned, all of the multiple-span bridges can be removed as one-piece units simply by sliding the rail joiners clear. I did drop feeder wires from each bridge rail, though, and connected them to jumpers below the layout, which connect to the track beyond the ends of the bridge. No problems with either track alignment or electrical contact.
Wayne
John,
Thanks for the source. I bookmarked it for future reference.
Bob
I am so glad that someone started a bridge thread. I was thinking about asking the same thing months ago. Since I don’t have a layout, this has given me inspiration. Keep up the great work everyone.[bow]