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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #15 on: April 23, 2014, 12:13:51 PM »
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Scratch built trestle on the Nevada City Southern built in the late 90's. Took months and months to build!...


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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #16 on: April 23, 2014, 12:24:54 PM »
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GaryHinshaw

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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #17 on: April 23, 2014, 02:28:18 PM »
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Here's a bridge & tunnel twofer with a bit of a story: about 10 years ago I built a 4x8 HO layout for my kids based on Dave Frary's Cactus Valley project.  The plan had a very unfortunate juxtaposition of two levels and this was my unfinished attempt to disguise that:



(Sorry for the lint-ridden photo - it's all I got.)  About 7 years ago I decided to abandon this layout and switch back to N, so this pike became a test bed for scenery techniques - many of which failed.  To my great pleasure, it lives on in Tom Mann's basement, and the hill above that tunnel is now the site of this magnificent scene:



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)

Correct.  :P
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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #18 on: April 23, 2014, 03:17:09 PM »
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Here is the start of mine. lots to do still.


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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #19 on: April 23, 2014, 03:25:10 PM »
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Gary would never forgive me, I  I tried to build the Loop in HO scale  :D
Correct.  :P

But you let Tom do a Tehachapi tree in HO....!?!?    :facepalm:


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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #20 on: April 23, 2014, 05:01:25 PM »
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I thought I had a picture of the one bridge on my layout.  I was right!

Nothing spectacular here, my uncle added the SF decals and weathered it.  I don't think the abutments ever got quite as much weathering as they needed though.

Santa Fe all the way!

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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #21 on: April 23, 2014, 06:24:23 PM »
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I've been working on a couple, but neither are on the layout right now as I am finally trying to install some scenery.  :facepalm:


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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #23 on: April 23, 2014, 08:11:52 PM »
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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #24 on: April 23, 2014, 08:50:49 PM »
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My first ever laser design project was this bridge for a Z scale version of the Gorre & Daphetid:



I also built the viaduct and the trestle:




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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #25 on: April 23, 2014, 08:53:21 PM »
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Only one I've got for a bridge...



And only one I've got for a tunnel....


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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #26 on: April 23, 2014, 09:07:11 PM »
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But you let Tom do a Tehachapi tree in HO....!?!?    :facepalm:

'Let' and 'forgive' are two different things.   ;)

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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #27 on: April 23, 2014, 09:07:44 PM »
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Duh, forgot the tunnels--four of them, same layout.




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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #28 on: April 23, 2014, 09:34:34 PM »
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I love what has been posted so far.  Some amazing work.

Mine high Cisco bridge is still under construction, but the end is in sight.  I could not have done it without help and encouragement from TRW.




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Re: The bridge and tunnel thread
« Reply #29 on: April 23, 2014, 09:35:57 PM »
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These were taken on one of my modules I did back in 93 or 94 after KATO released their bridges, the others are ME 40' Decks.  Nothing spectacular.