I have a stacked rock wall that I would like to make a single or double culvert that flows into a river. Does anyone have pic or ideas they have used? I have not looked at the commercially avail pruducts.
Sorry I don't have any pictures, but ....
What I have done for culverts is to use some heavy duty aluminum foil (the kind for baking). Find a large coarse thread bolt the same size as you want for your culvert and wrap the foil around the bolt and work it into the threads. Once you have the foil all worked into the threads, unscrew the bolt out of your aluminum tube.
Miles of corrugated culvert for next to nothing ....
Mark.
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Google..Model Railroad Culvert..Images and be prepared for hundreds of pic's and idea's:
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Frank
I'd suggest looking at as many prototype photos as you can find. If there's one that looks like the area in question on your layout you'll have something to work from.
I have a number of culverts on my layout, some in finished scenes, others not. Maybe these will supply some ideas.
This concrete box culvert was built from styrene sheet and Evergreen C channel.
The culvert at right under the track was made from soda straws, while the one under the dirt road used the corrugated portions of other straws (the smooth parts were buried).
This one has home-made plaster castings of WP prototypes, but could also have used commercial parts or have been scratched from styrene.
This is a larger version of the plaster castings used above. It's actually see-through if you get low enough, and has a styrene box separating the castings on either side.
Rob Spangler
Ask the County Infastructure Administion, (CIA) Department of Culvert Affairs.
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Since you have a stone wall and pending your era, you could use a stone culvert. If a later era, the culvert can show recent upgrades/ reworking to concrete as shown.
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
When looking for commercially available culverts in HO scale, don't ignore the ones that Woodland Scenics has marked for N scale. They are perfect for small culverts in HO.
Dave Nelson
Corrugated pipe can be a culvert, too.
Rob:
Great modelling including the culverts! The dirt road going over the tracks and into the background is superb!
Dave
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Different diameters of PVC can be cut and painted. The slurry looking water was made with Scotch tape with ModPodge brushed on in layers. The water can be lightly tinted to give it a brackish appearance.
Marlon
See pictures of the Clinton-Golden Valley RR
BroadwayLion Ask the County Infastructure Administion, (CIA) Department of Culvert Affairs. ROAR
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Good thing Lion lives in a Monastery. They probably won't throw him out.
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An empty toilet paper roll cut in half makes a good concrete or pvc culvert.
The drinking straws that bends has a perfect corrugated culvert pipe once its cut from the straw...I have used these in the past and painted them old silver.
Larry
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