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This is what I did, sounds like we were after the same idea. <br /> <br />I elevated my track 4 1/4 inches. I made my risers from pine wood and etched them with an exacto and painted and weathered them a flat gray to simulate concrete. Therefore my eleavation is not enclosed. The only areas I enclosed it are in 2 places and there I used foam where I have a hill that rises to meet the elavation. My elevated roadbed consists of balsa wood secured to my homemade risers with brads that were driven by an air-powered brad nailer. I think it provides me with a very secure elevated track and looks authentic. The places that my track crosses over other track and roads I used Atlas "steel plated" bridges which replicate the BNSF bridges in my area. <br /> <br />By the way, I love that bridge you show in your pic. If I had that bridge, I would run a river under the arched portion, but only because that for me would replicate the bridge over the Missouri River near Sioux City, Iowa that the BNSF uses. What brand/model bridge is that (that you have shown)?
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