Micro-Engineering bridges

http://www.microengineering.com/index.htm

Many Thanks foe the link. R. Staller

Well…they finally caught up to the 1990’s! If I had answered, incorrectly as it happens, I would have said that the company doesn’t maintain a website, I would have felt justified and accurate because I looked for one three years ago when I wanted to get their bridge in my image earlier.

I will say that I had to phone to ask for missng parts, and they unhesitatingly shipped them to me. I had them within 8 days or so. [8D]

-Crandell

Spide – Thanks for the N Scale pics – “valley-spanning” is something M.E. brdges do well. Now where can it fit on the layout? …the CR&T portion, or the Pennsy portion? M.E. website has city viaducts as well as the bridges in the photographs. A good thread to tantalize your tastebuds of creativity.

Beautiful photo’s! I am looking to build a tall double track curved bridge and I am trying to find information on what I have to purchase from Micro Engineering to do this. Can you please direct me on how to do this? Thanks!!

EDIT Just noticed I responded to an OLD thread, but oh well…

I have several Micro Engineering bridges.

This trestle uses ME girder bridges with towers built from Central Valley parts.

These ME girder bridges have real wood ties in place of the plastic tie track that came with them. I did this primarily to allow the use of continuous rails from the adjacent track rather than having rail joints right at the end of the bridge.

I, myself asked questions as to how to construct a double track curved bridge even though it was an old thread. I am looking to construct a double train bridge which will elevate to the next level. I checked on the Micro-engineering site and they don’t give much info on how to do this. Instead of a helix, I will have this senic area in the adjurning room. I am not sure which products to purchase to do this.

It will have to be steep and ‘expensive’ on your toy railroad if you wish to build such a large bridge to raise your twin tracks upwards of 8-14" in elevation! Maybe a curved stone viaduct would be a better option?

Unless you mean elevating to the next level of creativity, and maybe you do, 3% is steep, more so if curves are involved. At 3% you would need 22 feet to gain 8", plus there should be transitions at the beginning and end of the grade.

Micro Engineering doesn’t offer their high viaduct in a doubletrack version, although I think that their city viaduct is available as a one. For a high bridge, you’d need to either kitbash the towers from M.E. or Central Valley parts, or scratchbuild them using Evergreen’s styrene structural parts.
It would likely be easier to construct a double track concrete arch-type bridge, similar to the Nicholson Viaduct…

…although to keep it simple, I’d skip the arches-within-arches. A 4’x8’ sheet (or two) of .060" styrene would do the trick: cut and construct the curved deck first, then build the sides onto it - all three should be do-able as one-piece affairs, with added-on bits to create thickness for the deck’s edges. Then you’d need only to close-in the piers and bottoms of the arches - one piece for each arch, I’d guess. [swg]

I used the M.E. tall viaduct kits, along with some Atlas deck trusses and modified through-girder bridges to create several spans to get trains to the lower and upper levels of the layout. All are curved, but only single track…

…and the second one, shown above, is finally getting some scenery, although it’s only about 1/3 done at this point:

Wayne

I do understand about the idea of having a steep gradient. The train will be starting its climb along a 20’ wall, then along a 22’ wall prior to entering the 12’ room where I want to use a viaduct or something similar. All my curve tracks are 48" with inner track 46" handlaid track minimum radius. Thanks for the information anyway. My degree in physics actually helps building the model of my dreams.