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Bridges
Posted by jlcjrbal on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 12:30 PM
Do the make bridges for curves. I want to do a tunnel under a high point and it is on a corner. LMK Joseph

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Posted by cwclark on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 12:35 PM
I do believe there are some kits out there that can form a curved bridge...check the walther's catalog..there is also a Kalmbach publication called "Bridges and Trestles which has an article in it to show you how to build curved bridges from nothing more than some plastruct beams, evergreen styrene strips, and N scale girders...I built one for my HO layout using the N scale deck girders and it came out pretty nice...Chuck [:D]

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Posted by ndbprr on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 2:03 PM
One of the European manufacturers makes a curved girder bridge but I do not recall the radius. US practice in nearly every case is to make the bridge elements straight and curve the track on top of them so if you used a series of straight lines to make a curved section and then drew a curved line on top the curved line would represent the track but the straight lines would represent the bridge.
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Posted by jlcjrbal on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 2:19 PM
Thanks for the info Joseph
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Posted by bogp40 on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 6:03 PM
Microengineering steel viaduct would work, a little kitbashing and/or girders. You may want to look into Central Valley and possible use of their tie/ track system.
Bob K.

Modeling B&O- Chessie  Bob K.  www.ssmrc.org

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