I’ve decided I need a viaduct for my new layout. IT needs to be tall, like roof-top on a 5-6 story building. It also needs to be 4 lanes and I’d like it to have street lights and possibly a freeway sign. I figure I have to scratch it–or is there a kit I can bash.
How would one do this?
Rix http://www.rixproducts.com/ has 50’ HO Scale and 50’ N Scale 2-lane Bridge/Pier/Overpass kits that can be connected from end to end. The HO bridges should be wide enough to simulate 3-4 lanes in N Scale, and the prices are reasonable.
Thanks. That may be the way I go, but it is pricey. I figure it will cost me $280 plus I will have to extend each of the pilings to get the height I need,
If you’re gonna do a modern concrete freeway overpass, I would highly recommend scratchbuilding them out of Evergreen/Plastruct styrene parts. Concrete stuctures have more simple shapes, so it’s probably gonna be more a matter of piecing some plastic tubes and columns together instead of fashioning something more elaborate. You might take a few pics of prototype examples and decide what you want to do.
Maybe you should just get one of the Rix overpass kits and “reverse-engineer” it to scratchbuild more instead of paying up the nose for what you need. I’ve seen the parts and it totally looks like a bunch of styrene shapes you can find in the Evergreen/Plastruct display!
I don’t know what it’s like out in CA, but here in PA you need a licence to do mind reading. [:D]
I don’t know where I’d go around here, but I know just where in LA I’d take those pictures. If I did myself, I could run the wiring for the street lights through the structure as well. Thanks.