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Modeling Lift Bridges

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Posted by Track fiddler on Tuesday, December 28, 2021 6:28 AM

Very impressive Nscale.  Nice workYes

 

 

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Posted by NorthBrit on Tuesday, December 28, 2021 5:36 AM

Modeling excellence.   Bow Bow Bow

 

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Posted by Neptune48 on Monday, December 27, 2021 6:11 PM

Speechless am I!  Excellent work, sir.

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Posted by richhotrain on Monday, December 27, 2021 4:41 PM

Very nice work, NScale!

Rich

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Posted by jjdamnit on Monday, December 27, 2021 2:44 PM

Hello All,

Great Work!

Are these operating models or static?

Hope this helps.

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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, December 27, 2021 2:01 PM

NScale4x8
Cauhaugua River

Cuyahoga River.

Nice work!

I've spent some time around some of these bridges. Here's a photo of "Bridge One" under construction in 1955-56:

 NYC_1956-swing-bridge by Edmund, on Flickr

The original swing bridge was basically single track (a gantlet/gauntlet) I can imagine what a bottleneck it was.

I was there a few hours after Penn-Central train OV-8 slammed into the counterweights of the raised bridge back in May of 1974. What a mess.

Good Luck, Ed

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Posted by NVSRR on Monday, December 27, 2021 11:47 AM

Those are beautiful bridges.    You did an excellent job laying those out.   
shane

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Modeling Lift Bridges
Posted by NScale4x8 on Saturday, December 25, 2021 1:35 PM

I am Modeling the Cleveland Flats Industrial District. The Flats were once served by at least four major railroads and a couple of regional ones. With limited rights of way available, the railroads stacked themselves atop each other. There were three separate rail lines crossing over each other and the Cauhaugua River at different elevations. There were dozens of level crossings and 11 railroad lift bridges all within a couple of miles. Two of the lift bridges are still in service:

I created original 3D models and reproduced severl of the bridges [with some selective compression of course].

 basculeBridge.png

doubleTrackLiftBridge.png

viaductSection.png

modernLiftBridgeTower.png

Custom3DPrintedSteelViaduct.png

ModernVerticalLiftBridge.png

LiftBridgeBascule.png

EarlyDoubleTrackVerticalLiftBridge.png

https://nscale4by8.github.io/nscale4x8/

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