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The bridge and tunnel thread
« on: April 23, 2014, 12:13:20 AM »
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Looking around the forum lately, I see some spectacular bridges from the likes of Mark Dance and Gary Hinshaw. Since it seems like I have been spending a lot of time working on bridges on my own layout, I figured a thread dedicated to them would be outstanding for everyone's viewing and educational pleasure. It will also get the creative juices flowing.

Post up pics of your current or past bridge and tunnel projects. Scratchbuilt, kitbashed, or built up kits, weathered and unpainted, modern or old school... throw them up.

I'll start:


Up front we have bone-stock ME plate girder bridges, and in the rear is an Atlas C80 deck girder which I slightly kit-bashed to make it more prototypical.
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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2014, 01:13:45 AM »
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Looking around the forum lately, I see some spectacular bridges from the likes of Mark Dance and Gary Hinshaw.

Great idea! But surely you are mistaking me for Scottl, who is building the spectacular Cisco bridge.  (You're right on about Mark's Boundary sub bridges though.)  Sadly, Tehachapi has nothing but singularly unimpressive plate girder bridges, and the only progress I have made towards modelling one is to shape my roadbed for a future deck girder bridge:



(No one will ever mistake me for Scott again...)  There are a lot of cool tunnels on Tehachapi that I hope to be showing off soon, but these modelling efforts will draw heavily on some work done by Ed Nadolski -- I'm just a leech.  ;)

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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2014, 03:27:43 AM »
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Great idea! But surely you are mistaking me for Scottl, who is building the spectacular Cisco bridge.  (You're right on about Mark's Boundary sub bridges though.)  Sadly, Tehachapi has nothing but singularly unimpressive plate girder bridges, and the only progress I have made towards modelling one is to shape my roadbed for a future deck girder bridge:



(No one will ever mistake me for Scott again...)  There are a lot of cool tunnels on Tehachapi that I hope to be showing off soon, but these modelling efforts will draw heavily on some work done by Ed Nadolski -- I'm just a leech.  ;)

Oops. Haha well Scott's bridge was what I was thinking about. Haha
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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2014, 08:24:02 AM »
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I have been working on this one for Bearcamp river, and soon at least another bridge. This one is a kitbash of 2 CV truss kits so that I could double track the bridge based off of a few of the double track bridges on the B&M.



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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2014, 09:38:07 AM »
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Like you guys haven't seen these enough times, but I'll toss them in.

Atlas double track plate girder bridge on custom hydraulic cement abutments:


Custom built wood trestle and ME plate girder bridge with Chooch abutments:


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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2014, 09:50:31 AM »
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I've only got one bridge, and looking at this photo, I realized I still have some landscaping to do around it:


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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2014, 10:11:49 AM »
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Hmm... I'm gonna build a
bridge inside a tunnel...


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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #7 on: April 23, 2014, 10:23:41 AM »
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Ian - Couple of questions as I'd like to install a similar bridge on my double mainline...

1)  Was the combining of 2 CV bridges at all difficult?  Directions say easy to build as 1 bridge, so just wondering.
2)  What mainline spacing are you using at the approaches to the bridge?

Just curious to see if I'd want the CV bridges or a couple of similar Atlas truss bridges.

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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #8 on: April 23, 2014, 10:37:15 AM »
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... Just curious to see if I'd want the CV bridges or a couple of similar Atlas truss bridges. ...

I asked this many moons back, and the consensus was the CV bridges were the better choice. Hang on while I go search for the thread...

... ah. Here it is: https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=27928.msg289013#msg289013
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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #9 on: April 23, 2014, 11:05:05 AM »
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For tunnels, I still have these scratchbuilt portals in a drawer, but I doubt I will ever actually get to build them into a layout  (Gary would never forgive me, I  I tried to build the Loop in HO scale  :D)






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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #10 on: April 23, 2014, 11:24:54 AM »
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This is the only one I have a photo of at the moment...clearly not on a layout.   :facepalm:

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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #11 on: April 23, 2014, 11:26:40 AM »
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Here's a little blue double track bridge I scratch built to cross a road.


And another scratch build,  this time a curved section of elevated track.


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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #12 on: April 23, 2014, 11:45:14 AM »
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Bridges are only blue when they're sad...
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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #13 on: April 23, 2014, 11:55:31 AM »
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Boy, doesn't that look like bridges I have seen sooooooo many times.  What an elegant bridge.  Thx for sharing

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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #14 on: April 23, 2014, 11:59:01 AM »
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Trestle across Kelsch creek....

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