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<p>[quote user="Postdog"]I have three bridges on my layout: 2 girder, 1 truss. When ballasting the track, should I ballast the track on these bridges as well? I'm modeling a fictional area in the midwest. All three bridges are on a Chicago and Northwestern branch line.[/quote]</p><p>You didn't mention era but until very recently a granger branch line would almost never be graced with a ballasted-deck bridge with the exception of bridges paid for by government agencies as a result of such events as grade-crossing separations or line changes around new reservoirs. There are exceptions but they are on the order of 1:1000. Even now the ballasted-deck bridge on a branch line is the exception, and would be the result of a major line improvement project, out-of-face bridge replacement, or very heavy traffic (such as coal), or all of the above.</p><p>Having hi-railed or inspected on foot about 1,000 miles of midwest branch line I can count on one hand the number of ballasted deck bridges I have crossed. </p><p>S. Hadid </p>
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