Baton Rouge Southern - Chapter 2

[wm3798]

I think the fact that you had no other option than to put the turnout on the bridge was well established.  Once we swallowed that bitter pill, your next challenge was to make the best of the bad situation by making the trestle as plausible as possible.

As such, your rather free-spirited approach to trestle engineering has led to the bridge pointing itself out as a bit of whimsy, rather than as a well-executed mask for a "model railroady" Ed's Law kind of track arrangement.

Wait till you see the mess I'm making!

Lee

[Dave V]

I think the fact that you had no other option than to put the turnout on the bridge was well established.  Once we swallowed that bitter pill, your next challenge was to make the best of the bad situation by making the trestle as plausible as possible.

As such, your rather free-spirited approach to trestle engineering has led to the bridge pointing itself out as a bit of whimsy, rather than as a well-executed mask for a "model railroady" Ed's Law kind of track arrangement.

+1

We're not questioning the turnout on the trestle anymore...  Just trying to help you make it look robust enough to handle the modern locomotives and cars you'll be pushing across it.

FWIW, the finish on the trestle screams old/faded creosote!

[wazzou]

Yeah, what they said.  Leave it to Lee to know where and how to punch and leave no visible bruising.
We're all here to help you model that trestle the best damned way possible, despite Ed.

[John]

the advice is free -- desired or not .. but we are not funded for actual construction

[Philip H]

I know I know, I just found it darkly humorous.

I can make a couple more bents . . . and @wm3798 the concept of navigable in a real bayou is somewhat . . . fungible . . . afterall we are talking about people who boat like this:

http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/attachments/all-things-boats-and-boating/3481d1120586048-building-raft-75-table_boat.jpg

http://www.rachelleb.com/images/2008/04/airboat.jpg

[wm3798]

I thought boats were for holding parts of the driveway in place.  We've got three, never seen 'em get wet... other than in a rain storm...

Lee

[davefoxx]

http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/attachments/all-things-boats-and-boating/3481d1120586048-building-raft-75-table_boat.jpg

That table boat is freakin' awesome!  Must be coated with Flex Seal^TM . . . no leaks!   

DFF

[John]

Next time you come over, there is a long boat next to the cold storage facility .. it came off my USS Constitution model .. you may have it for your swamp

[Philip H]

I thought boats were for holding parts of the driveway in place.  We've got three, never seen 'em get wet... other than in a rain storm...

Lee

Yes well I can help with that problem - you need a big summer beverage cooler, right?

@John that would be much appreciated.

[seusscaboose]

I have some n Scale Alligators I was saving for the next phase of my NTRAK Zoo which will never happen.

You're welcome to them as well....

Next time we have congress.

[Philip H]

I have some n Scale Alligators I was saving for the next phase of my NTRAK Zoo which will never happen.

You're welcome to them as well....

Next time we have congress.

Done  but Congress . . . thats wrong on so many levels, including politically . . .. 

[Philip H]

so, if this spacing is both prototypical and pleasing for the CP as @mark dance  does it, why do I need more bents again?



Maybe my aging eyes deceive me, but his bents are AT LEAST as far apart as mine are, and they come from prototypical plans.

Not that I expect this to stop any of you . . .   

[wazzou]

The angle of that photo is a little deceiving but another shot he had showed what looked like 14-15' centers to me.
As I've mentioned to you previously, I'm in the business of supplying these timbers for many, many trestle projects.  I have in my possession and have reviewed many other scores of plans from SP, UP, GN, NP, MKT, Southern and many other lines and the bent spacing is pretty universal. 

[John]

The angle of that photo is a little deceiving but another shot he had showed what looked like 14-15' centers to me.
As I've mentioned to you previously, I'm in the business of supplying these timbers for many, many trestle projects.  I have in my possession and have reviewed many other scores of plans from SP, UP, GN, NP, MKT, Southern and many other lines and the bent spacing is pretty universal.

that works out to 3 per 50' car ..

[wm3798]

Because Mark's are EVENLY SPACED.  Whether they're a prototypical 14'-15', and compressed 12', or a stretched 20', all of them should be the same, unless there's some reasonable excuse, such as a boat channel that doesn't require a draw span.  And even that can be accentuated by detailing a couple of buoys or markings on the bridge to point it out to scale boaters, and disguise the discrepancy to full size viewers.

Lee