Hi Gary, Oh yeah, but it was the quickest, easiest, cheapest way I knew to get a level 6 inches higher. One the right side, I covered with plaster cloth already, so it's fine... And over by the bridge where the river rapids will be, is still bare... But here the hot wire foam cutter solves the shredding issue... I figured the shredding was no big deal...just shop-vacd it up. Then the chunky parts that came out might add some dimension in the rapids area? We'll see...there's always plaster cloth and sculptamold if I need it.
Tonight I worked on the daylight tunnel, er, well, redid it... Which, I think, is much better than my first... The blue cuts so nice compared to the white foam...LOL I'll have to start some paint on it soon to play with colors.
Looking great Chris! Not sure how 'real' you want your modern concrete trestle supports to look; however they typically use two reinforced concrete pillars butted together at the top that extend down at about a five degree angle from a horizontal concrete support at the top that extends out past the sides of the bridge. At the bottom the two reinforced pillars are supported by a substantial concrete footing, usually one piece. This prevents sway that would otherwise occur with a single reinforced concrete pillar. Jerry
Not to add more confusion to the bridge support topic, but... Here is a photo from Google Earth of the CSX crossing I-75 near Walton, KY The pillars are solid concrete with the tops being wider then the bridge and are wedge shaped making the bottoms wider then the top on all four sides. Now with that said, there is one more thing I want to say. It is your railroad and you can do what ever you want to do with it! (Yes I'm shouting here LOL) Gary PS When I first moved to KY I-75 was only 2 lanes wide in that area. It was interesting to see it widen to 3 lanes without making any changes to the railroad. No room for a 4th lane in there.
LOL...yeah, hmmm...I was thinking it was missing something. Although it's a fictitious location using any loco we desire, it'd be nice to have some level of realism to a few things, such as that...thanks, guys!
Well...played around with a few ideas...foam, round, and square. Think I like the ones in place now (square with rounded base and angled top piece) the best, which were easiest to make, and I think look best overall. Here's some pics showing the three...
Got a bit of foam shaped...at least shaped enough to put plaster cloth over it... Heres the scene from the other side, with a CSX container train... And lastly a BNSF coal train headed the opposite direction...
Such a shame. Been 10 months...no room for it in our sons room, had stopped working on it, finally tore it down. But...us MRs find a way, and I found something better...cleaned out the shed! Wifey can't complain about taking up space in there! Can she? now to start planning....
Sorry that you had to take your layout down. Good luck with your new one. Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 4 Beta
Yes...demolished. Track was just sitting on it, and I hadn't gotten any further along. Was an easy tear down. Will reuse the track I need, post what I don't need on eBay. Will start playing with layout designs this week. Likely an "L" shape. Here's a pic of one that has my attention: Will see how it converts to kato unitrack. I have a feeling my shed is too small.
the trackplan you have illustrated there is the one from the MR Salt Lake Route series. Fortunately for you, they used Kato track, so the conversion has already been done. In addition, the entire group of track parts were sold as a kit after the layout was introduced. HuskerN
