awesome

Amazing!

I’d like to see the effect created by the LED strip lights in the dark, lighting the bridge from within. 

Being a toolmaker and a welder, all I can say is:

Wow!!

That is one super duper erector set.  Nice work!

I can only imagine the time it took. My 42 inch two track open deck all steel girder bridge took me about a month!

Very cool!!

Great stuff. The black bridge is a replica of the C&O railroad bridge that crosses the Ohio River in Sciotoville, Ohio. Here's a picture I found on the net...wonder if it's the same.

Dave

What material?  Steel? Aluminum? What do you suppose it weighed?

"Impressive" is not adequate....but: 

- What's with the rope lighting? Why a cheesy touch like that on such gorgeous work (or pretty much anywhere)?

- Hopefully some more photos will come along containing more appropriate trains than that MTH Coors thing.

- Really stupendous work. 

thats gonna hurt the pocketbook??

Wow!

Peter

Very interesting!

A lot of places to jump from!  That's one of the more unusual layouts I've seen.

Mega kudos to the guy that built these and the guys that assembled them for the layout! Awesome does not begin to cut it! I'd love to see how this thing comes apart and gets transported. Not to mention an article on how he builds one of these. Having been in modular railroading for many years, I can appreciate the effort that went into this display!

Chris

LVHR

are they for sale and does he do custom work  

Sure would make a great photo op for a reprint of an old Erector Set catalog!    Thanks for taking the pix and sharing, it really is quite impressive!  Russ

The bridges are wonderful.  What craftsmanship and skill and perseverance.

Just bringing all the bridges to the show was a huge task and effort too. 

Thanks for sharing.

Charlie

The builder's name, Harold  Woods, Jr., appears in the first photo.  A quick Google search led to this link featuring his 45' Standard Gauge Hellgate Bridge model--that's right, 45 feet of Standard gauge Hellgate bridge:

https://www.artprize.org/65041

The link also shows his O scale, 15' long scale model of the Illinois Central Bridge at Metropolis, Illinois.

Astonishing!!!!

Edit:  Per Matt GN027's post below, Mr. Woods' middle name is "Virgil."

I wonder if there might be a Guinness World Record here? Maybe the Guinness Company would give them the world record for the longest train layout built entirely of bridges. I wish someone would send these pictures to the American Society of Civil Engineers ( these are people who design bridges for a living ) to get their take on it. They might publish it in their magazine called Civil Engineering.