bridge question

[Been Nothing Since Frisco (BNSF)]

ok I'm looking for a bridge that is between 6 and 10" that is 25$ or less.

notes: i dont have a set era, needs to be ho scale and i need to be able to put my own track on it. hopfuly i gave ya enogh details.

[CSXDixieLine]

Hey no problem, I'm 41 and there are some days where I can barely talk straight let alone spell correctly! As for your question, what scale are you in and what will the bridge be crossing? If you don't have a specific era, can you at least provide a general timeframe (1800's, mid 20th century, modern, etc)? This way we wont recommend something silly like a steel and concrete overpass style bridge for a narrow gauge logging railroad. Jamie

[Been Nothing Since Frisco (BNSF)]

im modeling ho, i plan the  bridge to cross a stream, thats why i want it so short, as for era  it differs with each consists, i have 5, one in the early 1900's, one in the 30's, one thats a mix of eras, one in the 70's and one modern, so this may be difficult. and i have only standered gauge (i forget how to spell that)

[twhite]

BNSF: 

Atlas makes a nifty through-girder bridge that runs around $8 or so, it has built-in track.  It's about 8" long and is nicely detailed.  You might want to check it out. 

Tom

[Been Nothing Since Frisco (BNSF)]

i think im SOL because i use life like track, unless i could remove the joiners on the ll track and put on atlas joiners, crazy but it just might work.

btw, would you know what code of raill LL uses. 

[Been Nothing Since Frisco (BNSF)]

ok i was looking at the atlas bridges in my walthers refrence book, and thought i could get the Warren truss bridge, then flip it over and still use the LL track.

[Medina1128]

I used an Atlas bridge that I got in a sack full of HO stuff that a friend picked up at a yard sale for $5. I am using code 83 on my layout, so it was simply a matter to grab the rail that comes with the bridge (code 100) with a pair of pliers and slide it out. I slid in a couple of lengths of code 83 rail and affixed with some CA.

[dehusman]

You can always use a piece of 1/8" masonite as a floor build regular track across it.  Cut the girders off an Atlas through girder bridge and glue them to the edges of the masonite to make a ballasted deck, through girder bridge.  Cut a piece of 1/4 in masonite about a 1/2" wider than the bridge and as tall as the distance from the streambed to the top of the masonite bridge deck.  Measure the distance from the top of the masonite bridge deck to the bottom of the bridge.  Cut another piece of 1/4" masonite as wide as the first piece and shorter by the distance between the bridge deck and the bottom of the bridge.  Glue the two pieces of 1/4" masonite together and paint them a concrete grey color.  They will be your bridge abutments at each end of the bridge, under the ends of the bridge.

Dave H.

PS: Sorry no slack for being in the 7th grade.  Unless you just got here from Belgrade or Tripoli, by the 7th grade you ought to be able to compose a gramatically correct sentence with proper spelling.

[R. T. POTEET]

Why don't you go to the "Structures" section of your hot-smokin' Walthers' HO-Scale catalog; there are nine thousand, eight hundred, and forty-seven bridges contained therein. I know! I counted every one of them.

Seventh grade was my favorite grade! My teachers liked me so much that they kept me there for five years. Believe me! I couldn't locate Luckenbach,Texas on a map when I finally went on to the 8th grade but I did know how to spell it!