No... not about dental work... lets see your best work in model railroad bridges. Whether built right out of the box kit... custom-made or kitbashed... bridges bring added visual pleasure to running model trains. Even little culverts break-up the monotony of the plywood plains look. I've seen some great bridge photos by several Trainboard members, but, would like to see if there are any new ravines crossed or gorges traversed by modelers who recently built bridges for their layouts. BTW... formerly posted photos would be nice to see again.
The Bear River Bridge on the Nevada County Narrow Gauge (Never Come, Never Go) dismantled in 1963 but in my world, now standard gauged and on the Nevada County Short Line (Never Come, Still Late) - Scratch built Plastuct on oNeTRAK module.
OK this is technically cheating but here are some photo mockups of how I plan the CSX bridge over the Etowah River at Cartersville, GA will look on my layout: Photos from RailPictures.Net, copyright by photographers included at bottom of each photo. Jamie
Wow Jamie, I looked at the pic first before reading and almost had the big one!! That is nice. I like that method of previewing the scene.
I've got a few long bridges. Here are the three bridges across the entrance to Portsmouth harbor. The closest bridge is a 2/3rds scaled model of the Cape Cod Railroad bridge in Buzzards Bay, expanded and strengthened for double tracks. The next bridge was derived from a span of the Eads bridge in St. Louis, and the furthest away was a span of the DelMar bridge. The Eads bridge was built from strips of wood; the others use styrene, brass shapes, piano wire and thread.
The bridge behind the HoJo's is a model of the Big Warrior Bridge, whose plan are available in Kalmbach books. I've also beefed it uo a bit for more modern traffic.
Wow those are some great bridges. Mine is no where near as nice but I present the link to it here if you want to go see it. http://modelrailroading.googlepages.com/trussbridge Forgot to add that the pics are thumbs so click them for a BIGGER picture. Thanks for looking
Here are mine. 2 double track trestles crossing the gap between 'THE Dam' and 'THE Waterfalls'. I am on fixed income and 'THE Trestles' only cost me $24.00 total to bulid. 'The Trestles' span 360 scale feet each. 'The Trestles' are actually made from Balsa wood...yet surprisingly stout and rigid...and spray painted flat black. The 4 column supports are cut from 1 inch (13 scale feet) of electrical conduit. The conduit comes in a gray color and looks realistically like concrete. I will be weathering both trestles soon. I am pretty happy with the results so far. :tb-cool: .
These have been around for a while but all of them I have scratch-built. The cantilever in the foreground from plastic strips and the wood bridge in the background from a recycled wood trestle. The wooden bridge in the background from the recycled trestle. Narrow gauge trestle and bridge.
A few more, A closer view of the bridge in the first photo of the previous post. Suspension bridge from brass shapes.
Gulp, once Pete and John have shown their bridges I am somewhat reluctant to share my (paltry) efforts, but here is comes: Tacoma 15th Street bridge: Main span is 2 Kato bridges, spliced together and the girders cut down to create the angled top. Approach spans are GreenMax bridges. The roadway is a metal L-profile for stablility with ME griders glued to the sides. The railing is 1:150 architectural railing. The main span sits on a round pedestal made from a wooden disk. Here is a link to a prototype shot: http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/wa/wa0100/wa0170/photos/168826pv.jpg Northern Pacific Tacoma Drawbridge: The main span is 2 spliced GreenMax bridges, the operator house is scratchbuild, ladders and walkways from GMM. The approache spans are ME girder bridges with a beveled lower edge. The main bridge support is a spraycan top with a small rail glued on top. The stone piers are wooden blocks with some leftover stone-sheet glued on. The wooden trestle parts are scratchbuild. Again a prototype shot that shows both bridges: The picture was taken mid 1950's, both bridges had been repainted from their end-1940's colors: Photo is located at the Tacoma Public Library under http://www.tpl.lib.wa.us , but their photo webpage is currently down... Cheers Dirk
