Show us your bridges and supports!

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rem37411

rem37411

Lead Caboose Polisher
I am sure there has been a thread on bridges...but I am mainly interested in seeing how you support your bridges.....pillars or otherwise. I have four bridges that will be basically "Out in the boonies" and I am interested in seeing your supports...I think mine will all have to be scratch built possibly out of foam but regardless, I want to see how you attach your bridges to the scenery!
 
My favorite bridge on the layout is this Walthers double track unit just out of East staging into Longhurst.
I combinid it with another Walthers kit, an underpass, and a double track abutment.
The scene is far from being finished tho...:rolleyes:
 


I knocked this one together a few months ago from parts in my scrap bin. It's the only scratch build I've done that actually turned out well.

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I even gave it working street lights.

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I figure I'll sink the angled bits on the edges into the banks a bit, like abutments build into the land.
 
Hi Ron: The bridge over Hammer Cr. used Chooch cut stone abutments and 1x4s, tapered, and covered with a thin mix of Structolite/Sculptamod.

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Same abutments on bridge over Roaring Cr.

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DJ.
 
Does anyone know of a source of just the trusses and the end plates for each truss to scratchbuild a bridge yourself? Im not sure what the terminoligy would be here.
 
Thanks for the photos so far everyone!

I have three bridges that will be on a mainline run that only need support on the ends and have been wondering what kind of base to put them on. I think you all answered my question.

Grampy, your photos always blow me away, SO realistic! Thank you very much! and I like the stone supports at the end of your bridge, I think I will try that.

CNCPRoadwarrior, how did you model that retaining wall? Is that a casting? Or a styrene wall? Or something else? I have one area I want a retaining wall and like the way yours looks.
 
Grampy's, Looks like one of the bridge supports needs to be straightened out. The next one down might need some adjusting also.
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Here's an oldy but still one of my favorites.
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The abutments are 20lb polyurathane foam cut and milled to shape. There is a styrene strip around the top to cap it.
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Holy smokes!!!! Nice photos just above....photoshop isn't just a click and paste, it takes care and artistry and a good eye. :)

First, my trestle with a Chessie Allegheny shaking the timbers:

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Secondly, A Union Pacific 2-10-2 crossing the interchange bridge over the Seneca River.

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-Crandell
 
Scratchbuilt bridge by a fellow club member, and as I recall he said it was a "Baltimore truss" (he's into bridges). Showing "The Aaron Burr" on its way out of town, while the City Turn gets its work done:

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I know everyone here has seen this, but it's the only bridge I have. It probably won't help you with the abutments since mine has none, but here it is anyway. It's an unfinished scene since I ran out of interest in this area. Some day I'll go back and finish it.

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