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? about bridges
Posted by thatboy37 on Sunday, January 20, 2008 8:00 PM

is there a company out there who makes bridges that are designed to your specifications, or do you have to buy what they have and modify it to what you need. any advice would be greatly appreaciated.

 

 

 

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Posted by bogp40 on Sunday, January 20, 2008 8:06 PM
 thatboy37 wrote:

is there a company out there who makes bridges that are designed to your specifications, or do you have to buy what they have and modify it to what you need. any advice would be greatly appreaciated.

 

 

 

I have never heard of any, but that doesn't mean that there's not a company out there that does this.

I perfer to build and kitbash if nec. to fit the demands of the area. Central Valley girders and Micro Engineering steel viaduct with all the add ons and separate ssections make this easy to customize a bridge to suit your needs.

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Posted by thatboy37 on Sunday, January 20, 2008 8:22 PM
 bogp40 wrote:
 thatboy37 wrote:

is there a company out there who makes bridges that are designed to your specifications, or do you have to buy what they have and modify it to what you need. any advice would be greatly appreaciated.

 

 

 

I have never heard of any, but that doesn't mean that there's not a company out there that does this.

I perfer to build and kitbash if nec. to fit the demands of the area. Central Valley girders and Micro Engineering steel viaduct with all the add ons and separate ssections make this easy to customize a bridge to suit your needs.

 

well i'm looking for a curved 2 track bridge in n scale the has te radius' of 15 & 16 3/4 with a center to center track spacing of 1 3/4" and at least 19" long and 2" high. maybe this can help a little more with pointing me in the right direction. 

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Posted by bogp40 on Sunday, January 20, 2008 8:43 PM
Maybe some of the "N" people can help out. There really isn't any curved bridges. These are made up of shorter straight sections angling for the radius needed. I don't know if you will find a bridge wide enough to work with the length and radius for any truss style. Steel or stone viaduct may be a better option to reworking one or two bridges to span the gap.

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Posted by thatboy37 on Sunday, January 20, 2008 9:01 PM
thanks
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Posted by SleeperN06 on Sunday, January 20, 2008 10:49 PM
Try asking the folks at

www.blackbearcc.com

They have a lot of neat stuff.

sleeper

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Posted by last mountain & eastern hogger on Monday, January 21, 2008 1:50 PM

Whistling [:-^]

There is a seller on ebay in the HO trains area that has bridges and tressels for sale and if you read his site he asks for you to wait for him to build whatever you have chosen to bid on or buy.

Just go to ebay and into our hobby section and type in tressels you will probably come up with him.

I in the meantime will look for him as well and will post when I get some time.

Johnboy out....................

Sigh [sigh]Oops [oops]  I just looked and he doesn't have a listing right now.  Just keep looking, he usually is on there with a selection to choose from and I am sure he would make whatever you had in mind.

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Posted by thatboy37 on Monday, January 21, 2008 4:00 PM
thanks again for the insight will check promply.
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Posted by cliffordp on Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:06 AM

I believe the seller on EBAY is trestles4u.

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZtrestles4u 

thanks Clifford
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Posted by thatboy37 on Thursday, January 24, 2008 3:06 PM
thank again
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