Found a couple neat videos of trains crossing the viaduct...
...from the front of an engine as it crosses the viaduct...
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...from a quad copter as a train crosses the viaduct...
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so... you'll be modelling this on your new layout, right?

Hmmm, in N scale, that would be... 14' long. I might shorten it a bit!

TrainNut Wrote:Hmmm, in N scale, that would be... 14' long. I might shorten it a bit!

Maybe its time to try T Scale? (a relatively new 1:450 scale)

ScrewySqrl Wrote:"TrainNut" wrote : Hmmm, in N scale, that would be... 14' long. I might shorten it a bit!
Maybe its time to try T Scale? (a relatively new 1:450 scale)

That's getting a bit small, but then again 1:700, or 1:720 has already arrived at a bit small, and I do Navy ships in that scale, so 1:450 would seem "big".

Chased a train yesterday...

Ahhh! Train chasing with minimal physical effort.

ScrewySqrl Wrote:so... you'll be modelling this on your new layout, right?

Allright, it took some time to get things moving in the right direction but, the answer to that is yes!
I have an area 4 1/2' long on the new layout just for this. Granted it will be a shortened version at about 720' as opposed to the full 2,295 feet of the real one.


I think I'll use 3 of the Micro Engineering tall steel viaduct kits and connect them with two of the 40' extension tower kits.




That will give me a total of 8 towers.

I visited my friends layout today to check out his Micro Engineering viaduct.


He's got a pretty sweet setup.