This girder bridge is in the Feather River Canyon of California. It reminds me of many model railroad bridges along the side of a cliff.
I like the rust effects along the bridge’s bottom as well as on the piers.
Yeah, that’s a good prototype photo to look at while you’re weathering a bridge. Nice shot.
Your Photo reminds me of the bridge on the Rend Subdivision of the C&O
Here’s a model of it
Until I read the caption, I was getting ready to compliment you on some outstanding scenery. It looks like it could be on a model railroad.
The first photo fooled me into thinking it was an outstanding model and at first glance at yours, I thought I was looking at the real thing. Very nice work.
You know, looking at that prototype photo makes me think, maybe “bottle brush” trees aren’t so unrealistic after all.
Dave Nelson
Bottle brush down low & bumpy chenile up top!!![:D]
Gee, all I’m doing are little trestles
Mark—don’t do this to me!!! LOL!![bow][bow]
Mark:
Neat. That whole area around Keddie where the High Line takes off from the mainline can give you a really good case of “Spectacular Bridge Overload,” LOL! Especially looking at them from parallel Hwy 89 between Keddie and Greenville.
Tom [:P]
More Feather River bridges…
Maybe this will inspire you to build the Micro Engineering steel viaduct.
Maybe two bridges in one view is your style…how about these “hop scotch” bridges?
And here is the “obligatory” shot of the twin bridges at Keddie Wye.
Hi: Mark, I thought all model rrs love bridges. Those are some great shots of the real thing. Here’s one of mine I’m particularly fond of.
Heres a shot I got last year. Of course its not in service.
Well, I guess I’ll throw in two of my ‘big’ bridges.
The Bullard’s Bar arch bridge:
And the ‘scary’ Deer Creek Viaduct:
Tom [:P]
Tom, were your bridge engineers anticipating double track on the Bullard Bar bridge?..Love those Santa Fe (wheel arrangement) type locomotives, I mean “Decks.”
Mark (fan of the friendly SP)
Howdy, Mark.
Maybe the Bullard Bar bridge was single tracked during a line reduction - not uncommon during the ‘shrink the track’ era.
The deck girders in your first-posted shot resemble what I’ll be doing, except that mine will be oxide red and the trees will be cedars. The Feather River Route is geographically very similar to the Tomikawa Valley (and its Upper Kiso Valley prototype.)
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with lots of steel bridges)
Your photo can show all of us how to model realistic trees. It they are mostly see through, that means all we need to is put thinner clumps of leaves on our armatures.
If any forum members live near Monessen, PA, there are two neat railroad bridges, beside the Interstate 70 bridge as it crosses the Monongehala River, which is one of the rivers that ends up at The Point in Pittsburgh. In the days of George Washington, this was the Appalachian edge of the frontier, of the American Colonies.
Mark–
Yup, it was originally to be a double-track bridge, but my surveyor (me) goofed when he planned out the passing track, so the single track was laid down the middle.
I’m a big fan of 2-10-2’s, myself. But no way on earth is the Rio Grande going to call them “Santa Fe’s”, LOL! We refer to them as “F-81’s” F for Freight, 81 for the tractive effort (81,500). That particular puppy on the Deer Creek Viaduct is powerful enough to raise and lower the garage door. [:P]
Tom
Tom, perhaps not coincidentally, the SPs 2-10-2s were the “F” classes (F-1 through F-6) of its locomotives, where it too stood for “Freight.”
Geez, great bridges y’all. There’s a real nice RR bridge over in Augusta, going to have to get some pics of it at some point