bridges

[collectthem]

 wow, these are all really nice.

[wm3798]

 

Mostly commercially available kits that I've modified a bit one way or another.  One thing's constant... I'm a total convert to Micro Engineering's bridge track.

Lee

[twhite]

BATMAN

twhite

Here's some of mine. 

The arch bridge over Bullard's Bar Lake:

The Deer Creek Viaduct:

 

 

Hey Tom 

 I think if I had that viaduct on my layout, I would want to hold the hand of my brass loco's every time one went across.

                                                 Brent

Brent: 

Yah, looks scary doesn't it, LOL?  But the track on that viaduct is Sinohara Code 100 bridge track with guard rails and is the most carefully laid track on the layout.  And it's on a 34" radius which gives the locos a lot of 'swing' room.  The speed limit is 25smph, and EVERYTHING slows down for that crossing.  Haven't lost anything yet (he said, fingers crossed ) and it's been up for almost six years.

Tom

[BATMAN]

twhite

Here's some of mine. 

The arch bridge over Bullard's Bar Lake:

The Deer Creek Viaduct:

 

 

Hey Tom 

 I think if I had that viaduct on my layout, I would want to hold the hand of my brass loco's every time one went across.

                                                 Brent

[G Paine]

Great Western Rwy fan

 

How about a lot of bridges in one place! This is Awesome!

That module was a real mixmaster! There are 3 independant loops in addition to the 3 NTRAK thru lines. I must have spent 10 minutes or more watching those trains; I got 2 of the routes figured out, never got the third - but they were having locomotive stalling problems on that one. One thing that does not show is the speed indicatior panel on top of the backdrop. There is a lot of creative thinking in that 8 foot long module!

[Anonymous]

I have a grand total of one bridge... You can see it at 1:00 of this video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXyBlWnXAu4

[MAbruce]

Great Western Rwy fan

How about a lot of bridges in one place! This is Awesome!

 

That's Bob Pawlak's Bridges Canyon Ntrak module (from the Northeast Ntrak club).  I helped him set it up at one of the first shows he brought it to.  It is simply amazing and the crowds couldn't get enough of it.  The engineering behind it is complex and all the bridges are scratch built.  Easily the best Ntrak module I've ever seen. 

[twhite]

Here's some of mine. 

The arch bridge over Bullard's Bar Lake:

The Deer Creek Viaduct:

The overcrossing at Wagon Wheel Gap:

The Plum Creek girder bridge:

The bridge at Malakoff Dry Diggings:

I've got about 13 bridges of all types and sizes on my Yuba River Sub.  I'm what you call a Bridge Freak.

Tom

[BerkshireSteam]

dknelson

You want creative, how about this prototype ...  site has photos and a drawing:

http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/fall95/p95a2.htm

As explained in the text

"On the evening of March 10, 1995, in soggy Southern California near Coalinga, the twin bridges carrying Interstate 5 over the Arroyo Pasajero collapsed, killing seven people. .... the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) was faced with the dilemma of another closed freeway. Teams of bridge engineers responded immediately and worked over the weekend to develop strategies for opening the freeway. ... Fortunately, the solution to this predicament was only 80 kilometers away at a Caltrans maintenance facility, where a new type of temporary bridge - made from surplus railroad flatcars - was stored.  The idea of using railroad flatcars for bridges is not new. There are 83 such bridges in California. Some of which date back to the 1930s. These bridges are typically located on low-volume, local roadways."

Dave Nelson 

i've seen that before believe it or not. not as elaborate though. some little way-out-of-the-way middle-of-BFE back country road. wasn't big, a single flat car 50-60 feet long pretty much just layed across the small gully on a pair of concrete pads. i'm sure it was fastened down some how but this was a very long time ago and i'm surprised i even remember this much about it (i'm only 25 but i have the selective memory of someone in early stages of alzteimers) if i remember right the side railings were just the typical highway side steel railing mounted to wood posts. shoot i even remember seeing the reporting marks on the side. that was how i learned it wasn't a normal bridge, it wasn't till much later on that i found out it was a just a flat car. they did something with the top though cause we drove over it and wasn't really bumpy.

[dknelson]

You want creative, how about this prototype ...  site has photos and a drawing:

http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/fall95/p95a2.htm

As explained in the text

"On the evening of March 10, 1995, in soggy Southern California near Coalinga, the twin bridges carrying Interstate 5 over the Arroyo Pasajero collapsed, killing seven people. .... the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) was faced with the dilemma of another closed freeway. Teams of bridge engineers responded immediately and worked over the weekend to develop strategies for opening the freeway. ... Fortunately, the solution to this predicament was only 80 kilometers away at a Caltrans maintenance facility, where a new type of temporary bridge - made from surplus railroad flatcars - was stored.  The idea of using railroad flatcars for bridges is not new. There are 83 such bridges in California. Some of which date back to the 1930s. These bridges are typically located on low-volume, local roadways."

Dave Nelson 

[Great Western Rwy fan]

Here's some from the Train Show last week,

This one is really cool, I have a video to put on You tube of this in operation..

How about a lot of bridges in one place! This is Awesome!

Here's an interesting design...Nice!!

This is a nice older style one, Pretty cool!

[R. T. POTEET]

collectthem

 This is great, I get so excited looking at the things you guys show. I am planning out my small 2 leval  n scale 3x5 layout and I wanted to know is there a such thing as a train going parallel over a another train with some type of bridge.

3X5 what? I hate to be a bubble-burster but if you are talking about building a multi-deck layout then 3x5 feet ain't hardly going to be big enough even in N-Scale . . . . . . . . . . perhaps you are referencing 3x5 yards or 3x5 metres!

[MisterBeasley]

A bridge gives you an excuse to put some water under it.  This is an old model of an Atlas Chord Bridge, now out of production:

It can be a simple low trestle, again, just a reason to change the scenery beneath and around the tracks.  Since I took this picture, I shoved the ties together to make "bridge track" here, and added guard rails.  This is a better picture, though:

Sometimes, the trains go under the bridge, and something else goes over it.  Rix makes a couple of different variations on this highway bridge:

 

[dehusman]

I used ME bridge girders for an overhead crane track in a steel mill building.

You can use N scale truss bridge sections (like the Atlas one) as roof trusses in HO and larger scale building.  They can also be used for conveyor framing or highway bridges.

[trainfan1221]

I remember the trestle kits that came with train sets.  They were simply piers that got a little taller and you put them under the tracks to elevate them. I never liked them, there was no reason for it and it was basically a bridge simply for the matter of having one.  It served no purpose except to make you wonder if your train would fall off.

[reklein]

Art,ya got a pretty nice layout there Bud!! Wish I could be so motivated. BILL

[collectthem]

 This is great, I get so excited looking at the things you guys show. I am planning out my small 2 leval  n scale 3x5 layout and I wanted to know is there a such thing as a train going parallel over a another train with some type of bridge.

[ARTHILL]

Here are the same old pics. There used to be a bridge thread with some great pics.

[collectthem]

 Can please see some creative uses for bridges, or bridges in general, all shapes and sizes. Thank you