Bridges - show yours

Still working on them.. but you get the idea

 

I notice that some of you build your abutments before modeling the mountain/elevated portions. Is this the proper method?

 

Lot's of nice work everyone. Bridges really give life to a layout. Love 'em. Here's a few from the Susquehanna Valley System. There will be more as layout construction resumes for the fall/winter.

 

Metro, really, it is six o' one and a half-dozen o' t' other. Do what comes to you naturally.

I feel 'better' about making my terrain appear first, and I build my bridges to suit, just as the Big Boys do. I build the bridge to span whatever gap my terrain modelling produces for me (whimsy and all), and then build the abutments to suit whichever bridge I happen to build so that it all looks proper once installed.

Here is a better view of the trestle, which incidentally is soaked with real creosote oil....'cuz I had tuh.

I built the re-entrant that the trestle was required to span, and then built the bridge with the curvature required for the tracks on either side of the span (since I had already built the spline roadbed and then cut out the portion that would ultimately be filled by the trestle.) I built the bents extra long and merely clipped them with sprue nippers as needed to make it all fit once I placed the mud sills and the abutments.

 

Here are some of my old photos of the Belmont Shore Club N scale bridges. Not all of them were large or even had water. I'll post four photos.

This is the biggest one.






This one is my personal favorite.

 

Flash, Those are nice. Here is another that I don't think anyone here has seen.?? Cheers, Jim CCRR/Socalz44

 

After looking threw the many posts of bridges, I almost did not post my bridges. I tell you there some real great works of art, and you all should be congratulated! In my case, I’m modeling a prototype railroad. So I have scratch built each bridge to match the existing bridge. However, they all have other functions then just getting a train over a gap in the land. The first bridge, The one and only one that has its scenery completed is just that a bridge in a small space. Where as bridge No. 2 helps hide the grade and will have a lot of scenery some day soon. Bridge 3 is on shelf and will have no real scenery around it. Bridge 4 will have scenery under it like a small shelf. Bridge 5 is the one that stands the roundhouse. This bridge was used to keep the upper level from blocking the view of the roundhouse. The original plans had the town of Gerry NY right over the roundhouse and would have blocked the view drastically. Bridge No. 6 the last bridge, spans a gap where the coaling tower from the first level comes so close to that of the second level that we needed a way to keep the two levels from visually crashing together. Bridges are simply cool and if used right provide more then just a means to get trains over a gap or hole in the land.

Bridge No. 6 will be on the next post.

 

Bridge No. 6 Is one of the few places I strayed from fallowing the proto type DAV&P. This bridge never existed, but I fell in love with the way this type of bridge looked and the spot just called for it.

 

Please tell me that's a 1:1 scale sky you're using as your backdrop!

 

More Belmont Shore Bridges

This brings back wonderful memories when I was in this club. Here are the big bridges again; different view.


The track crosses the river here and again in the distance at the two truss bridges already pictured. This is a portion of the oldest part of the layout built around 1970. It has been refurbished many times.


Another one of my favorites. This bridge is only about eight inches long.


William Cowie and I meet our Black Widows on the Belmont Shore Ops night. Good times!


IMHO, one of the best things about the BSRR club is the numerous and varied bridges they have on the layout. At the time I was there, many were not on finished portions.

 

Bridges, what a lovely topic )

NP and UP Drawbridge over City Waterway (now Thea Foss Waterway) in Tacoma:


The NP Drawbridge in a different view:


A "strechted" Kato bridge:


High up in the Cascades:


Cheers
Dirk

 

Here's another bridge (under construction) on my layout. It will be a double-decker, double-tracked rail/road bridge, with rail on top, road underneath. The final span will consist of three trusses end-to-end, crossing a wide river.

 

Very COOL bridges you all!!! My first scratch built was this little creek bridge. It's very small 4"X1 1/2".

 

Some great bridge and trestle photos there. Only one bridge on the home layout. The lift out for the doorway into the layout room.
Three Atlas plate girder bridges end on end on a piece of 1X6 made to look like a river.

 

Nice lift out.

Here is one (N-scale) I just put HO bridge feet on. I don't know where I'm going to fit this in on my layout plan, or what it will span.

 

Here's mine so far.
My first time scratch-building.
Not done yet but it will be soon.
Comment please :tb-embarrassed:

 

I just finished weathering these two bridges tonight.