I’m sitting here being all pleased with one of my photos, and then it hits me.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=187148
That bridge is twice as long as my passing sidings.
Those sidings take up all but 3 or so feet of a room’s length.
The room is half the length of the house.
If I attempted to model that bridge in HO scale, with 200 feet of approach on either end so it wouldn’t just be sitting there, it would be wider than my house.
…Kind of makes your MRR feel small, don’t it?
Wow, what a spectacular photo.
Tom
It’s not the same, but you could use modelers license and compress the scene to something smaller like this:
The ME steel viaduct and any of the available optional add ons will let you accomplish part of that dream
That bridge looks about 1000’. In HO that’s 11.5’. 16’ with your run ups.(roughly)
You could always do it in N. You’d only need about 8.75’ then.[:D]
When pressed for space, compress, compress, compress. I sqwaushed a seven and a half mile branch line into less than ten feet.
I have a postcard of that bridge. It looks even better on the postcard. The picture from the postcard was still when BN was around.
Probaby because the guy who took the postcard picture had a better camera than me [;)]
Dream, Plan, Build, and then Dream some more. This guy built a bridge. You can build a world. That’s why we model, man, that’s why we model…
Kind of makes my state feel small. Why can’t New Jersey look like that? [banghead]
I suppose downsizing the viaduct is your only option, but distances do have to be compressed on our pikes.