Doing a harborfront scene on the layout and loking for ideas on piers and materials that the warehouses would sit on…wood planking , concrete etc…Sea walls made of wood , concrete or both???
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Thanks Jeffrey…Great picture and a nicely detailed scene also.
Bob Gretch has a real nice waterfront scene. Maybe you can get his attention and he can give you some tips. He’s posted some pics before. Shouldn’t be too hard to locate them.
You caught my attention! That’s funny, I was just surfing the forum when I came upon this thread, and then my name. Anyway, here are a few pics showing the waterfront on my layout. If you see anything that might interest you or have questions about, E-mail and I’ll be glad to answer as best I can.
Bob.
Hey, melchoir…
I was bitten by the rail-marine bug a while ago. While researching piers and such, I came across this doc published by the US Army Corp of Engineers. Its a good primer on prototype harbor facilities. Follow the link:
http://www.usace.army.mil/usace-docs/armytm/tm5-850-1/
Bruce J.
I’m a shutterer apprentice(hopefully just a shutterer in the end of the month). On construction on harbour piers in concrete, you usually leave the wooden boards in place in tide zone to protect the concrete from the water.
In New York harbor, in the 1950’s, slips that were routinely used by the largest liners had big timber raft bumpers, flat on the pier side and curved to match specific positions on the ship’s side on the hull size. They would be there, moored to the dockside, even when the ship wasn’t.
The slips for the Staten Island ferries had timber-faced walls of pilings that fitted around the end of the ferry like an egg cup around an egg.
One thing that was an absolute. No ship, boat or barge was ever allowed to make direct contact with anything made of concrete.
Chuck