@lehighline posted:
@Carl J posted:Chris,
Thanks so much for the link to Mark Boyce’s operating bridge(s) — big help to see his results for making his own motorized platform and adding the Atlas bridge! Pretty cool! 😎
Carl J
Sorry I am late to the show, but I just saw this topic.
Chris, thank you for finding the page where I get suggestions for hinges and cutting and then show what I did.
Carl, I see you have a 48" bridge as I do, plus I have the shorter one. Both are Atlas that I bought used. I must give credit to mike g. for the idea. Quite frankly, I was at a bit of a quandary with how t do mine until I remembered mike g. had built a two bridge lift up system where the bridges are separated vertically. That was the help I needed to move along. I just modified it to suit my situation. Notice the lower bridge has the pivot point below track level, which is nice so I can make more realistic scenery. Building it was much trickier. The upper 48" bridge had a lot of superstructure under track level, so the only way I could think to do it was to put the hinge on top with perpendicular rail cuts.
Alan has really done a fine job with so many lift up bridges. Sparty's is looking good so far in construction.
