N deck girder bridges on radiuses

NPRR284 Apr 26, 2020

  1. NPRR284

    NPRR284 TrainBoard Member

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    I'm building some n scale deck plate girder bridges (with the steel siding facing down) on a shallow radius and at the center of the radius, the track will be coming off the support beams it should lay on by 1/8 to 1/4". Anyway, I was curious to what others did to compensate for that. Hope this makes sense. Appreciate any help and pics would be cool. Many thanks
     
  2. NPRR284

    NPRR284 TrainBoard Member

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    decided on wood trestle. thanks feel free to delete post
     
  3. jdetray

    jdetray TrainBoard Member

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    I'm glad you decided on a solution for your bridge.

    For what it's worth, I kitbashed four Walther's through plate-girder bridge kits into a curved bridge on my N-scale layout.

    - Jeff

    Here is one end of the bridge, showing how the curved track fits. The 0.125-inch music wire gives the long bridge some structural integrity.
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    Here is low-level view of the whole bridge showing the three double I-beam structures that support it.
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  4. Hardcoaler

    Hardcoaler TrainBoard Member

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    That's some really nice work Jeff! Your engineering is sound and it looks very prototypical. (y)
     
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