Thank you for the great ideas! I would absolutly love to have the lumberyard at the other end, but the track is already laid and balasted and the bridge installed. I think I will save that for the next layout! It would just be too much to rip up track and undo the work I’ve done. I’m happy with what I have. But maybe I could convince the girlfriend to let me add another 2 feet to it!
is this abutment better, overmod? I took a lot of what you said into account. Thanks!
I do still think it would be better to add a little more ‘thickness’ to the top of the retaining wall; in concrete it would be susceptible to impact damage if built as modeled. Just a couple of pieces of styrene about the size of that corbel on the end pier would do it just right for me…
I’m assuming that when you finish the river you are going to dutch the crack between the pier and the retaining box structure. When you do, I suggest that you carry the corbel on the top of the pier ‘around the corner’ back to the scenery fill. I think it will look better that way… that deep bridge steel implies very heavy construction at some point in that line’s history. (See some of the bridges in the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton area, which were built in anticipation of Archie Manning’s super-railroad expansion to take serious tonnage north to the Poughkeepsie Bridge routes … traffic which never eventuated, of course, but the bridges had been built by then…)
I still need to go through and finish it. I am going to be adding thickness in all the areas that the retaining wall is exposed. This is only 1/4 sides that need to be built. Still learning to use scratch styrene.
The actual bridge that I’m modeling is from the town next to me. You’d never know it was there except in the winter when all the trees Loose their leaves. was an only Milwaukee road bridge just before the CNW junction. Sadly, both lines are torn up and gone. The milwaukee road you’d never know was there. Besides a few Bridges. The CNW line still serves
