Good Morning:
What would be the best way to lower the Walthers bridge crane. As built for HO it is 9" tall. I am in N scale and would like to lower it some.
Thanks In Advance
Caldreamer
Even if you do shorten it, won't it look way out scale to your trains?
Maybe look around for something in N scale, or a kit bash of what you can find in N scale.
I guess if your going to do it, and keep it looking plausable, you'll have to remove a section from each of the legs, and to keep it in appearance to the the way the model looks and rides on the tracks, you'll probably have to take that section from the middle of each leg.
Mike.
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I do not know if the bridge crane would scale down to N scale very well. I am not familiar with this type of crane.
The Walthers travelling overhead crane is a different story. It will make a very heavy bridge crane in N scale. It could be shortened a bit simply by cutting off the bottoms of the vertical members.
-Kevin
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I'm guessing the OP is referring to this?:
https://www.walthers.com/bridge-crane-kit
FWIW, Vollmer make one in N scale because the proportions will be awkward even with the legs cut down.
I'm surprised that the Walther's HO scale version is of a size more suitable to N scale, but the components clunky-enough to be O-27.
Here's a link to the Vollmer N scale bridge, which has better proportions.
Wayne
caldreamerAs built for HO it is 9" tall.
That is actually closer to the N scale dimensions.
Ore_Bridge_Wellman by Edmund, on Flickr
The top of the bridge from the ground is pretty close to 135 feet. 10.12" in N scale.
Ore_Bridge_Wellman_Whiskey-Is by Edmund, on Flickr
Walthers may have used a little selective compression. Sometimes things just don't look right when modeled in actual scale. I built the HO one and it looks pretty good next to my Huletts but it has been reduced in scale for HO. I don't know where I would chop the legs to shorten the height. It is a beautiful model.
The Walthers kit lacks the obvious 75 ton ore discharge hopper and weighing bin shown on the main tower leg. Looks like a good scratch building project for the future
The ore bridge in the photo actually blew over during a storm in Cleveland, sometime in the 1970s!
Good Luck, Ed