@Trainmstr posted:Rich883 I went to your website, WOW what a beautiful layout! In reading thru the pages of posts, you talked a little about how you constructed your steel girder elevated section. Can you please provide more info on the HO girder bridges you used? The brand, how you supported them inverted and how you made the walkways with railings. Thanks.
Thank you for the nice words.
I used atlas girder bridges ho scale, I think they only make one. I used a piece of 1 x 2 wood as the support and then placed the gorged bridges upside down on the board. I used black attack screws to connect the bridge to the wood. I did pull the two rails out of the bridge first so is fit better up against the wood. The base supports we’re MTH stone elevated supports, some were from the graduated set as I made it in a grade.
to make the turn, I cut the ends of the sections using a razor saw from hobby lobby to make the mitre for the curves.a puce of plywood was used, cut to the curve I wanted and about 2” wide to provide support.
the walkways were 1/4 square dowel inserted under the track between ties and extending about an inch or so beyond the tiles in each side. The walk way was some strips of scale lumber - bass wood. The railing is from plastruct and glues to the side of the walkway strip wood. After flying together I pained flat black with a spray can.
now that being said I recently replace that section with the elevated sections made by east cost enterprises and their custom model railroads products- Stan worked with me to get the right size.
I hope this helps.
