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New Bridge
Posted by dwbeckett on Saturday, September 18, 2010 2:12 PM

At the start of this season I found my heavyly painted wood bridge warped,cupped and chacked, totaly unusable. So I started looking around my stuff and found a Foam bridge that was two short but would fill the gap till I could build a better bridge. At first I tryed to extend the 2Ft foam bridge with two leftover 2-track portals this went noware fast. So I was guleing the first portal back togeather and then the Idea hit me I put the two portals side-by-side.WelI was still short I needed a 1.25 more. After mesureing twice each leg was 4.5 inch's to long. That became my spacer. So one side of the bridge was completed. I ordered 2 more Portals and after about 60 days they came in. This is the end result::::::::

 

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Posted by IRB Souther Engineer on Saturday, September 18, 2010 6:24 PM

Wow 60 days! Who did you order from?

Looks goodYes

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Posted by dwbeckett on Saturday, September 18, 2010 7:24 PM

From my LHS, It seamed like forever, but it was worth the wait.

Dave

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Posted by PJM20 on Sunday, September 19, 2010 5:56 AM

That looks niceYes! In the February 2010 issue of GR, there was an article about how to make your own foam bridges for $10. - Peter

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Posted by Firemanmike on Sunday, September 19, 2010 12:36 PM

Looks outstanding. Gave me some ideas. Good job.

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Posted by smcgill on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:21 PM

Dave it came out great!

Sean

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Posted by g. gage on Monday, September 27, 2010 11:38 PM

I’m in the process of building a new extension and will need a curved viaduct. Looks like this could be the answer. What did you use for the deck? Nice work Dave.

 

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Posted by dwbeckett on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 9:20 AM

I used some s4s redwood , they also make a single track portal thats 12 wide by 14.5 tall that would even be better.

Dave

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