Bridges, tunnels, viaducts, blasted cliff sides, industry, unique buildings that accommodate a railroad, or anything else. What is your favorite example of railroad engineering? And to bring us all into reality. If you had all the space you needed to build a scale replica of your favourite bit of railroad engineering, how much space would you need?[:O] You may use Google Earth if you have to. But no calculators![(-D]
Post pics of the prototype and/or your model if ya got’ em.
Brent
Well, for starters…
And to give you an idea of how big this bridge is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvgBEy_z7CA&feature=related
I do so believe that those passenger cars are 65 footers, but that is a rough guesstimate.
My favourite example of railroad engineering is this (model):
First, the mighty, and comparatively small Y6b -
But my favourite prototype example of engineering is the famous Stoney Creek Bridge, to which I can only provide a link…no personal image:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=154783&nseq=3
-Crandell
Two from the New Haven, the Hells Gate and Poughkeepsie Railroad bridges. Both too large to model, mike h.
How about this hole-in-the-wall (not the station, just the wall with the new window[(-D])
I found this on darkroastedblend.com
But seriously, I have (for what ever strange reason) wanted to model a scene where a locomotive ran off the end of the tracks and crashes into an abandoned fish cannery. I guess it’s my sence of humor.
Crandell my friend you took the words pout of my mouth! Next would be this monster. I was able to visit a real one. When you are modeling trains it is easy to forget how big they really are! I am 6 foot 3 and the drivers come to the top of my head!
If I had the spaces, funds and time? May be something like Rod Stewart’s layout out. His city just blew me away.
Ken
I think my favorite railroad engineering project was the Hanging bridge in the Royal Gorge near Canon City, Colorado.
Below are some photos I took of that particular bridge a couple years ago.
Great examples of bridge engineering folks, but my favorite and arguably the most difficult would be the narrow gauge White Pass and Yukon methods of creating a right of way on the side of a mountain in 40 below weather. Brrrr
This is my favorite railway structure:
It was built 1846 to 1851 out of a little over 26 million bricks. Its length is 576 m. its height 78 m, making this bridge the world´s largest bridge built solely from bricks.
Wow Ulrich! That is impressive indeed. And it’s only a seven metre straight shot across your train room[(-D]
Brent
Like this?
I knew you were holding out on us!
Starrucca Viaduct. At 1064 feet long, there is no way I’ll model it in S. It would be almost 17 ft plus approaches.
Enjoy
Paul
… only slightly beyond my means [swg]
Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to locate either a link to a photo or my own shots of the bridge on the abandoned line to the Okutama Dam at the far end of JR-East’s O-me Sen:
The railroad, on a steady 2% (I think - might be steeper) exited one tunnel, crossed over a narrow road (basically a ledge carved into the side of the canyon,) leaped the gorge on a beautiful concrete spandrel arch, crossed a goat track at grade and immediately entered another tunnel. The whole business was on a quite sharp curve.
In 1:80 scale the entire scene could be modeled un-compressed in one tatami (approximately 3 x 6 feet) at the end of an aisleway. Of course, for a belt-high bridge, the white water cascade underneath it would come in somewhere below the knees.
That’s just one of the things that got selectively compressed out of my current track plan…
Chuck (Modeling the vertical scenery of Central Japan in September, 1964)
A couple that spring to mind for me:
Wayne
The Carrollton Viaduct isn’t remarkable for it’s size, but it is the oldest stone arch railway bridge in the United States, built originally in 1829 to carry light carriages pulled by horses, and still in service today under SD80 MAC’s, Gevo’s, and whatever else CSX can throw at it!
Lee
