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Updated 8/11/2018 (PM):

I decided to start work on the Stone Arch at the eastern (WV) side of the bridge. The prototype arch was definitely part of the 2nd bridge on the site and might even have been constructed for the first bridge over the Ohio at this spot.

I'm thinking of covering the western face of the arch with 1:12 stone blocks (printed paper) from the Brickyard program (set printer to vivid, landscape, best). The paper will go inside the rectangle of the bridge. It seems to match up pretty well with the Chooch #8264 Large Cut Stone Wall sections I'm using to cover the arch.

I turned the stone arch on its end (western face up) and test fit the spacer block, pedestals, bridge feet, and 15” plain (no nipple) bridge section. To make the track on the bridge section level with the stone arch, I will use ¼” Vinylbed roadbed on the arch. The track east of the arch will use 3/8” Vinylbed roadbed.

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I used orange paint on the end of a toothpick to mark the holes in stone arch where the bridge section will mate up with it. We will need wood screws with a flathead (Phillips) about 1” long. GarGraves track screws of that length might work very well – we’ll test fit them.

I glued the spacer to the base of the Stone Arch's western side.

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More when I know it.  

George

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