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Ok, I was bored, so i was looking for some ideas for bridges you see. well to make a long boring story a short boring story, I found this interesting site http://www.structurae.net/en/structures/index.php Well being the bored person i was, I started to look at some of the bridges they had in their database and started to wonder. now what was i wondering about, well how big would a bridge that crossed the missippi near Moline Illinois be in HO scale. well let's see 1 bridge crossing it was stated as being 600m (or 1968.5 ft), Which if i did my calculations right would mean i would need an area of 22.6 ft to simulate a c\rossing of the mighty missippi at a medium witdh. Now to contrast that, the Madison Street Bridgein chicago is only 59.7 m (195.7 ft), And in scale it would be 2.25 ft across. Hmm..so even a moderate river is hard to model, no wonder we all model streams and creeks [:D] Jay.
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