Remaking of the Ridley Keystone & Mountain

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Checking the fit of both bridges.



The entire space that has been cleared out.

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In order to determine the amount of shims I need to place under the bridges to reach the track I used double sided tape to attach the track to the thru girder bridge.



You can see from below how much is needed.



I used some leftover roadbed material and cardboard to fill in the gap.



Now I do the same for the two track bridge.



I remove the temporary shims and replace with 1/4 inch foam boards.



Trim the foam board to fit.

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Here is the portal for the roadway tunnel.



I needed to take some off the bottom to make it fit and look like it was for cars and trucks.



Testing it in place.

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I pull the bridges out for weathering. While that is happening I glue down the foam boards.



I place the weathered bridges back in place. I tack down the track for the double track bridge as I do not expect to move the bridge again.

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For quite a time I worked on how I was going to handle pedestrian access. I thought of adding stairs but that did not prove easy to do so. Finally I thought of pedestrian tunnels. For that I bought two N scale tunnel portals and the Walthers Subway Entrance kit.

Once I had the portals I made a test fitting.





Using the Walthers Asphalt Road System I did a test of the roadway and sidewalk under the thru girder bridge.

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Since the Bridges Area is my layout addition for the summer 2024 challenge all updates will be made in the following topic:

tompm's layout addition '24 build challenge

[TMo]

I like the weathering on the two railroad bridges, Tom. Keep up the good work!