Introducing The PistonBroke Line

[OBJack]

At the risk of boring some who may have seen this before, here are a couple of posts (from another site) of my one and only attempt at a scratchbuild project.

I am going where I have never been before, so look after me if I get lost on the way, and offer kindly advice on where I can Improve, but be gentle.
That said..............
I am prepared to embarrass myself in front of the forum :oops: (not for the first time ) and try my hand at scratchbuilding ........for the first time.

I am going to attempt to construct an old one way/ one lane wooden traffic bridge over a section of the layout.

Here is the spot, so let the construction begin

First a jig for the standy uppy bits

I stole it from the cimmaron mine project and made a few extra cuts to hold the longer "standy uppy bits"

and Voila two..... bents?

Then I added some beams

( just guessing a bit at the at the size of the timber to use )

A few bearers

And some decking

WOOHOOOWH

To fast........
Gotta stop now Boys, a hot flush just hit me. I think I'm punching out of my division here, will sleep on it and see what the future brings for the apprentices on the construction gang.
They might all be out of a job when the War Office gets back and surveys the damage.
More soon ........ ........if we are still employed tomorrow.


Jack Hammer

Later.....

OK so the next bit of comedy comes in the form of the posts and rails along the sides

As you can see I have already tried to age it a bit without to much success, but will try to rectify that later.

I didn't know how high these railings should be ..................and with one casualty already on the deck, ( see above for evidence) I thought I had better hurry and make a decision

A guinea pig was hogtied and made to stand "Bare" a*sed naked ....'cept for his hat ....on the bridge for a height gauge

Looked about right, so we fired him and moved on.

Did the other side nearly the same

In the photo above, if you look hard enough, you can see I have added a couple of running boards a car width apart for the vehicles to use.

Another Photo from the scratchbuild police as they flew over the site ... looking for bodies probably.

Next job, is for the crew to put up pieces of tin along the railings to stop any more people committing suicide.

But that will have to wait a while as they are all on stress leave at the moment, they say it is because of that dude who fell to his death a few photos back, but I think it is because they put in a solid 5 hours work for the first time.

Will post more when/if they resume work.


Jack

Even later.......

So without going overboard this time, and after all the remaining LPBs have had their R & R and returned to work, it was time to sheet the sides of the bridge with corrugated iron,

So second hand Iron was sourced,........... :mrgreen:
.........or if not scrap metal, maybe it just looks that way because it has taken so long to build, that the Iron has deteriorated ........Anywho, I know that this is the end result,

After only one death and many beers later

One side of the old bridge

The Barely recognizable other side

Now to transport it to a place on the PistonBroke line. :arrow:

A couple of early pics in position

And

Looking along the bridge

A bit of early morning work

And

As you can see the next works programme will be for a stone type abutment to join the bridge up with hill

here it is a few weeks on

Sorry if I have jammed you computers up with all the Photos, but now you can see what I have tried to achieve, and I need some advice on whether I have to seal the weathering powders I used with something like dullcote, or do you just leave as is?

I have a photocopy of a photo of the kitbuild (phew ) I have tried to copy somewhere, and will try to post it if possible.



Jack of all trades Master of none