Another very nice and interesting scene. I have the 320' Micro-engineering trestle... but... you have a long inverted truss piece to span the tracks below. What is the construction of the truss portion made from... existing bridge(s) or custom built from styrene?
I love that detail in the wooded area of the first picture! Looks just like around here... ha ha! Alex
A favorite scene from each of my last 3 layouts: Current layout (2010-Present): RDCs in Woodbury, NJ My layout before moving (2004-2010): Looking North My original 4'x8' (1998-2012): Steam on the Mountain
Has that resurfaced? Last I saw it was being tracked down by the widow of a modeller friend. Good to see it back out if it has. Gives me hope in seeing my 8701 by a grandkid's lifetime...
Yes, she actually found it almost a year later, still in the box, it got back to me. It's alive and well and back on the layout of the modeler that donated the TTX flatcar to the cause. It pretty well wrecked the schedule of the nationwide tour I had going, but the model itself survived it OK. The M&ET 70-tonners themselves ended up in Canada doing switching at grain elevators on light branch lines. They weren't transported by rail flatcar, they were trucked up there, so close...but no cigar... on anticipating what would happen.
Thanks Joe. The trestle sections are morphed from the ME kits but the trestle bodies themselves are made from 2 pieces of oak. I milled a slot into the top of the oak pieces to insert a piece of 1/8" x 1/2" aluminum strip which serves both as the roadbed and a stiffener for the whole assembly. The truss portion if made from two Kato truss bridges inverted and bashed into one big truss. This is glued to the bottom of the aluminum strip. The whole trestle comes out as one assembly for cleaning or maintenance.
