Sunday Photo Fun 01/29/17

[Sturgeon-Phish]

This is the replica of the Sciotoville Bridge that was at the Train Show in November.  The Sciotoville railroad bridge is a double track railroad bridge of twin spans each 775 feet long, it remained from its construction in 1917 until 1935 the longest continuous truss bridge in the world and stands today as the prototype for continuous structures. Harold Woods’ replica of that bridge is not quite that big. 

“It’s 11 inches wide, 32 inches high, and 32 feet long,” Woods said. It weighs 400 pounds, has 15,000 individual pieces and is held together in one solid piece by 55,000 individual welded connections. 

 

Have fun

Jim

[rtraincollector]

Nice Jim would love to see a layout with that incorporated into it. 

[Nationwidelines]

Meanwhile, at an undisclosed bunker in the foothills...our heros were able to play with a new standard gauge layout.

 

 

 

 

NWL

 

 

[Firelock76]

My God, that Sciotoville Bridge model is a "Wonder of the World" in it's own right!

Truly a remarkable labor of love.

[Sturgeon-Phish]

I took the picture on Friday night of the Train Show.  The organizer, Mark Harris, was talking with the man who made the model and the man said he would love to see a train running through the bridge.  

Mark has a huge O scale oval made up of 8' long modules that he and several friends assemble for the show.  The bridge builder, Mark and his friends, started to "dream" what it would take to run trains through this beautiful model.  

After taking several measurements, they figured they could replace several of the modules with the bridge.  They started after the close of the show Friday night and worked many hours that night, and brought Mark's huge oval and the bridge together and the end result was amazing!  It looked as if they were designed to be together!  The bridge is still on display in Portsmouth at the Welcome center and it will be in the train show again this coming November, re-joined to Mark's modular layout.   

Jim