I’ve long been a fan of massive bridges , a lift bridge would be my favorite.A close second is a bascule bridge,darn walthers had to retirer their HO model of one.
Some company has got to come out with one. Then again supply and demand…still would be a show stopper. I thought about scratch building one,but I searched the web and came out empty handed for plans. I did find the library of congess web-site.
In the library of congress web-site is something called HABS/HAER,a records of sorts. If you type in what your searching for engineering wise,nine times out of ten you’ll find schematics of it. I found schemactics of a lift bridge, very poor drawings and I couldn’t resize them for copying.
A bascule bridge on good ole e-bay ,will cost you an arm ,leg and one eye ball,not me.
Does anyone have info or know about drawings for a lift type bridge ??? The heck with a bascule bridge,I’d like to get my mits on a lift bridge.
Corpus Christi, Texas has a vertical lift bridge over its ship channel. I shot a bunch of b&w photos from several angles in 1970 and made measurements for rough plans, but never drew real scale drawings. I could hunt those up…
My vertical lift bridge bibliography:
Cape Cod canal bridge, described as world’s longest vertical lift. aerial photo
Business World magazine Apr.16, 1955. p.129 (may have actually been Business WEEK)
Cade Cod, Mass Vertical lift bridge, Model Railroader Oct06 p.68
Dumbarton Bridge across the southern arm of San Francisco Bay
Business Week Dec 22,1956 p.110
Scherzer rolling lift bridge, pix, plans
Model Railroader Nov67 p.52
Scherzer rolling lift bridge NMRA Data Sheets D6e.09
Vertical lift bridge, generalities Mod RRer Oct88 p.106
