Seaboard Central 2.0

[Chris333]

Wow that bridge turned out nicely!

[basementcalling]

Turned out just like I remember them from the back seat of Granddaddy's Buick. Well done, Dave.

Maybe snow on Tuesday for you. Probably not down here though.

[davefoxx]

Thanks, @mu26aeh, @crrcoal, @Chris333, and @basementcalling!

[glakedylan]

continued super work, Dave
always a pleasure to see your progress
sincerely
G

[davefoxx]

Thanks, @glakedylan!

[Rich_S]

Dave, The bridge looks great, nice job. Just thinking out loud for a minute, is there any way you can make a rubber mold of the guard rails before you paint the bridge? That way if you wanted to add another one to the layout, it would save you the time of scratch building more guard rails? With a mold you'd just have to pour some epoxy resin into your rubber mold and voila, you'd have as many guard rails as you could possible want? Food for thought?

 

[crrcoal]

Dave, The bridge looks great, nice job. Just thinking out loud for a minute, is there any way you can make a rubber mold of the guard rails before you paint the bridge? That way if you wanted to add another one to the layout, it would save you the time of scratch building more guard rails? With a mold you'd just have to pour some epoxy resin into your rubber mold and voila, you'd have as many guard rails as you could possible want? Food for thought?

That is an excellent idea!!!

[davefoxx]

Dave, The bridge looks great, nice job. Just thinking out loud for a minute, is there any way you can make a rubber mold of the guard rails before you paint the bridge? That way if you wanted to add another one to the layout, it would save you the time of scratch building more guard rails? With a mold you'd just have to pour some epoxy resin into your rubber mold and voila, you'd have as many guard rails as you could possible want? Food for thought?

Thanks!  I was really tempted to make a resin mold to build these guardrails, but I was far enough along at that point that it didn't make sense to go to the expense, not to mention the learning curve of resin casting.  Now, there's really no use of making a mold of these railings for another bridge, because the odds are those railings will be a different size.  If I remember correctly, the railings between the posts on this bridge were approximately 7-1/2 feet.  That could differ on another bridge to make even sections.

So, if I decide to make another bridge (unlikely on this layout), I would take care to build one really nice railing section and make a mold of that.  It is a good idea, though.

DFF

[basementcalling]

Thanks!  I was really tempted to make a resin mold to build these guardrails, but I was far enough along at that point that it didn't make sense to go to the expense, not to mention the learning curve of resin casting.  Now, there's really no use of making a mold of these railings for another bridge, because the odds are those railings will be a different size.  If I remember correctly, the railings between the posts on this bridge were approximately 7-1/2 feet.  That could differ on another bridge to make even sections.

So, if I decide to make another bridge (unlikely on this layout), I would take care to build one really nice railing section and make a mold of that.  It is a good idea, though.

DFF

Just buy one.

http://www.factorydirecttrains.com/osbornmodelkits3055nconcretebridge.aspx

[davefoxx]

Thanks, but I like mine much better than that one.

[eric220]

Thanks, but I like mine much better than that one.

Agreed. You done good!

[OldEastRR]

Why doesn't the road continue on straight past the industries and off the other side of the layout? Or at least over the tracks and curving to the left or right? It would justify a big expensive bridge going over the tracks. If the road is just to serve those industries they would probably put a road down to grade level to cross the tracks because that was much cheaper, since they in all likelihood have to pay for the accessway.
As for the slope of the road, going down it would parallel the track on both sides and cross it just before the switch, so to give the easiest grade.

[Carolina Northern]

You're looking at an unfinished area. Give Dave a chance.

[davefoxx]

Thanks, @Carolina Northern.

@OldEastRR,

The road won't continue across, because that would be combining two separate geographical areas on the layout.  On the far side of those A&R tracks will be a screen of trees to separate Raeford, North Carolina from Hamlet, North Carolina.  If I were to run that road across, that would require a bridge over Hamlet Yard, which I do not want.  Not only would that inhibit switching ops, but it would shrink the layout visually.  I want to keep these areas separate.  I have considered a backdrop down the middle, but run into a really awkward situation at the southern end of Hamlet Yard, where a backdrop would block me from a couple of turnouts in the yard ladder.

As far as the expense of the bridge for just two industries, I'm going with Rule #1.  Obviously, Raeford is selectively compressed, but there's not much I can do about that.  Life goes on.

DFF

[wm3798]

Looks nice.  Now put a nice bed of pine straw around it and you've got it nailed!