09-27-2010, 08:15 PM
Richard, forgive me, I missed your post earlier - thank you for the wonderful comment and I agree, I like the new supports with the wider columns!
Reinhard, Thank you, and welcome home!
biL, I suppose I am pretty fast on these things considering, may be my "extremely focused" nature. Although I have had tons of interests in my life, they generally come along one at a time and I devote 100% to it at the time.
S-two-fiddy, I too hope the day comes when we could see your pair of N&W Y3's, and a long string of coal hoppers 'cross those bridges.
Tetters, GoogleEarth is such a great tool to use for modeling, and yes, the measuring function is very useful!
Galen, the shoes will definitely be installed.
The CV kit has them, but they are like 3 times taller than what is on the proto-type bridge. I am planning to cut the CV shoes down and use them. In the next few photos, you can see where I set the supports just a little bit lower than the bottom of the girders, to allow for the shoes when the time comes. The supports aren't glued in place, I just stuck some modeling clay in the holes and pushed the supports down to see how things are fitting together.
So here are some progress photos. Along with the supports, also got the abutments installed. This is shaping up well. Still need to add the I-beams under the concrete sections. QUESTION: on this type of bridge, are the supports still called "bents" or is that just for timber type bridges?
Reinhard, Thank you, and welcome home!
biL, I suppose I am pretty fast on these things considering, may be my "extremely focused" nature. Although I have had tons of interests in my life, they generally come along one at a time and I devote 100% to it at the time.
S-two-fiddy, I too hope the day comes when we could see your pair of N&W Y3's, and a long string of coal hoppers 'cross those bridges.
Tetters, GoogleEarth is such a great tool to use for modeling, and yes, the measuring function is very useful!
Galen, the shoes will definitely be installed.
The CV kit has them, but they are like 3 times taller than what is on the proto-type bridge. I am planning to cut the CV shoes down and use them. In the next few photos, you can see where I set the supports just a little bit lower than the bottom of the girders, to allow for the shoes when the time comes. The supports aren't glued in place, I just stuck some modeling clay in the holes and pushed the supports down to see how things are fitting together.So here are some progress photos. Along with the supports, also got the abutments installed. This is shaping up well. Still need to add the I-beams under the concrete sections. QUESTION: on this type of bridge, are the supports still called "bents" or is that just for timber type bridges?
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