Javern, thank you for the photo link. I'm an Iowa State University athletics fan (Ames is about 15 miles east of the bridge), and yet until yesterday I heard not heard about the new bridge. (I've got to get out more. . . .)
I'll be in Ames for a night football game on August 30. I think I'll wander down early and see if I can't photograph the new construction. If you or others here wish to see photos, please let me know. Thanks!
Could've sworn this was the tallest double track railroad bridge in the U.S. (over a navigatible stream,anyway)
High Bridge,KY. Bridge is 308 feet in height. Doubletracked in 1929,IIRC
In HO, that bridge would be 29.28 feet long.
By comparison, the Golden gate bridge and sidespans would model 103.1 feet long in HO.
Interesting to me, and indicative of the engineering feat that the Golden Gate Bridge represents, the towers, if modelled in HO, which would support that 103 foot long model bridge, would only be 8.5 feet tall.
http://www.midiowanews.com/site/tab1.cfm?newsid=18599886&BRD=2700&PAG=461&dept_id=554432&rfi=6
Once completed, the bridge will bethe country's tallest and longest double-track railroad bridge in operation . Might be fun to model if you have the room