More Model Railroad Bridge Detail

This is the nickle tour of my layout and a brief peek at how I made my bridges. It should provide better construction detail to view. My previous video has a sound problem. I made this with a different camera.

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Howto & Style

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• Model Railroad Bridge
• Trains
• Steam Locomotive
• Naptown White River
• Reading
• Building
• Balsa

[fyadcorp]

That's a really amazing bridge and looks very realistic. I think technically that would be a Parker Truss, not a cantilever. Are you planning on painting or weathering it?

[yemyrrej]

@fyadcorp I painted it black and weathered it slightly with some brown and silver paints.

Parker Truss? Cantilever? Blast it, Jim! I'm an artist not an engineer! :)

[yemyrrej]

I never did take any pictures of the construction. I didn't think there would be much interest in how I made it. Boy, was I wrong. I am trying to formulate some sort of "how to". I have had several requests. I'll try to not keep you waiting!

[duckdogger]

I like what you have done. Very impressive. Have you done a "how to" video?

[yemyrrej]

@duckdogger I never did take any pictures of the construction. I didn't think there would be much interest in how I made it. Boy, was I wrong. I am trying to formulate some sort of "how to". I have had several requests.

[mizerlad]

I am a structural engineer and am impressed by your bridge. Love the layout!

[fyadcorp]

@yemyrrej If you wanted to be really prototypical, especially for BNSF, you would give it a "total rust" paint scheme, lol.

If you want a pretty good explanation of all the different truss types (I'm not an expert either), check out the "Truss Bridges" article on Wikipedia. It indicated a truss with a segmented upper chord is a Parker style truss.

[TMandN]

wow....quite the bridge!

[yemyrrej]

@jaughnVids I'll see what I can do. I'll have to make some drawings or something. I should have but did not take photos during construction.

[jaughnVids]

@yemyrrej Hi! If you don't mind, I would like to copy it but maybe scale it down to 3 feet. Would you be able to give me the dimensions of the woods used so I would know which ones to buy. Also, how are the joints connected? Are they just glued on? I'm trying to draw this based on the video but sometimes it's hard to see coz it's black. Would you happen to have photos of the parts? Thanks!