Nscale4x8:
A worthy project. The photo is one of the Flats loxomotives. I passed by it 4 or 5 times a week for more than 12-years. I occasionally got caught by their car movements on Columbus Street.
By the way, the swing bridge is shut down for maintenace.
Good luck. I can't wait to see the finished product.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
NScale4x8 For the grades, I calculate the rise over run for the grade I want and draw that slope onto a flat piece of foam. I buy the foam in 4x8 sheets giving up to 8 ft for each run. Curves are no poblem. Just cut the foam support into segments and arange the segments along any curve you want including S curves. In my case, I used every other segment so that there are frequent gaps for running wires.
For the grades, I calculate the rise over run for the grade I want and draw that slope onto a flat piece of foam. I buy the foam in 4x8 sheets giving up to 8 ft for each run. Curves are no poblem. Just cut the foam support into segments and arange the segments along any curve you want including S curves. In my case, I used every other segment so that there are frequent gaps for running wires.
That's a really clever idea for making the risers. Would make foam roadbed a lot easier than I would have thought.
Ray
Thank you. For the grades, I calculate the rise over run for the grade I want and draw that slope onto a flat piece of foam. I buy the foam in 4x8 sheets giving up to 8 ft for each run. Curves are no poblem. Just cut the foam support into segments and arange the segments along any curve you want including S curves. In my case, I used every other segment so that there are frequent gaps for running wires.
https://nscale4by8.github.io/nscale4x8/
Very nice. Captures the flavor of a busy industrial city. Impressive how you got all the grade changes with foam risers.
wrench567 I still remember the smell of the Flats fifty years or so ago.
Amen!
The Clark Avenue Bridge on a sunny day —
Clark Avenue and Clark Avenue Bridge. Looking East from West 13th Street, Are Obscured by Smoke from Heavy Industry, 07/1973. by The U.S. National Archives, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
Is a later addition out to Whiskey island in the cards? Anyone making N scale Hulets? My uncle worked at USS on the Flats way back in it's heyday before the fire. I still remember the smell of the Flats fifty years or so ago. The rusty dirty snow in winter and all the driveways and playgrounds topped with slag from the mills.
Pete.
It's too bad you don't have room to include that nifty auto swing bridge on Center Street, between Detroit & Merwin Avenues:
That would be eye-catching on any layout...
Tom
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
Wow, lots of nice bridges in there!
Simom
I have a new N Scale 4x8 layout.
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