Great thread, and great bridges, guys!
Arjay, I thought your bridge looked familiar. It was the subject of Tom Danneman's entry in a recent "Trackside with Trains.com" photo competition. Nice job!
Nelson
Ex-Southern 385 Being Hoisted
I love bridge threads!! Gives me a chance to see not only what everyone else is doing, but give me some inspiration just in case I find yet ANOTHER place on my MR to carve a canyon.
rjay: That Canyon Diablo is just SPECTACULAR!!
John: It's so good to see your Keddie bridge again--it just blows me away! Beautiful!
Here's a couple of mine.
The Bullards Bar arch bridge--an "Americanized" Faller kit:
The Deer Creek Viaduct--two ME tall viaduct kits on a 36" radius curve:
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Thanks for starting this thread Jimmy! Lots of great work, I've wanted to add a bridge to my layout several times, though I've never quite understood how to do it. Lots of ideas here though, hmmm....
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Not weathered or complete, but here it is...
Here's my favorite bridge pic:
The bridge itself is an engineering marvel - a curved wood truss bridge - It couldn't exist in real life, but I bent the engineering rules (and bent the bridge) to make my track plan work out. Given that a small brass loco will cause the bridge to twist, I've named it "Thrillseeker Bridge." I tell folks that the engineer who designed it was a Colorado State University graduate (note: I'm a Wyoming grad - there is a rivalry between schools). I also explain that we make passengers walk across the bridge, just in case it lets go under a passenger train.
I love this hobby! You can even break the most basic engineering principles once in a while.
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
Have been gone from here a long time, and old pic, hope you enjoy
John
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Arjay1969 Jimmy, Thanks! And yes, the prototype still has the piers in place from the original bridge next to it. http://www.somewherewest.com/Route66/Winslow-Williams/ATSF787ECynDiablo.jpg I do need to buy one of the signal bridges from BLMA, though. It's the one piece that would complete the model.
Jimmy,
Thanks!
And yes, the prototype still has the piers in place from the original bridge next to it.
http://www.somewherewest.com/Route66/Winslow-Williams/ATSF787ECynDiablo.jpg
I do need to buy one of the signal bridges from BLMA, though. It's the one piece that would complete the model.
It sure would....
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Arjay1969 duckdogger Arjay - kitbashed, scratch built? Great looking bridge. How long? Thanks! The bridge itself is scrathcbuilt from styrene shapes and sheet, and is 4' long. It's actually scaled down from actual HO scale...this version is approximately 2/3 of what a true HO scale version would be. I did that because I can handle lugging a 6' module, but an 8' one would be just a bit much.
duckdogger Arjay - kitbashed, scratch built? Great looking bridge. How long?
Arjay - kitbashed, scratch built? Great looking bridge. How long?
Thanks! The bridge itself is scrathcbuilt from styrene shapes and sheet, and is 4' long. It's actually scaled down from actual HO scale...this version is approximately 2/3 of what a true HO scale version would be. I did that because I can handle lugging a 6' module, but an 8' one would be just a bit much.
I was also going to add that I thought it did indeed look a little shorter than it would in HO because at first glance I thought it was N.
AWESOME BRIDGE
Arjay1969 Bridges? I've got one for you. Here's my Canyon Diablo Bridge module. I've just finished the module, just in time for my club to set up at the Temple Model Train Show in Temple, TX this Saturday and Sunday.
Bridges? I've got one for you. Here's my Canyon Diablo Bridge module.
I've just finished the module, just in time for my club to set up at the Temple Model Train Show in Temple, TX this Saturday and Sunday.
Arjay, That is sweet.
OK by me! Here are a couple from the Seneca Lake, Ontario, & Western:
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
I agree, more modeling threads.
ME combination through/deck girder 120 scale feet long. Modified to have rounded girder top plates.
With all this locked thread nonsense and people whining about this and that I am ready for a real model railroad thread .
I am in the middle of revamping a section on my layout to include three bridges. One is a truss bridge connected to a girder bridge and the other is another truss bridge.Looking for some new ideas here. I want to put more bridges on my layout but I don't really have a good place for any more without major remodeling.
Lets see your bridges