Perfect. I need two. I beams across the bottom, curved ends…
Cool model. So it’ll build a bridge just short of 13 in long if I heard him and calculate it correctly.
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13.85 inches actually …
13 inches is 330 mm
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Unfortunately no - it will built one side that long, or two sides half that long. You still need to connect them with a floor of some kind,
and have to add triangular supports as well.
Curved ends round it off. (No pun intended)
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A similar thread totally on small bridges that might offer some additional information:
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Thanks for bringing back that thread from the old site. Lot of good stuff in it. I love that picture of the steam locomotive starting over a bridge that’s a destroyed arch viaduct, with wood piling on top of a ruined pier.
One of four steam engines I photograped yesterday. Onmy wife’s camera I actually got all four in the same frame, but I like this one.
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The 610 is one of my favorites!
Rode across High Bridge (KY) on the top of the 610 tender at dawn. It was most certainly a “somebody pinch me” type of moment in my life.
I was a volunteer conductor on one of the “Southern Steam Specials” many years ago and that was our reward.
All Photos © Mike Koenig
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Love T&P’s steam. That elesco heater mounted over the smokebox door, instead of atop the smoke box, reminds me of a longhorn bull. Aesthetically, I like T&P steam more than ATSF.
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Nice,!
And there is absolutely nothing that compares to them when the machinery goes blowing by you at speed!!!
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It wasn’t so muich the length as it was the diameter. The drive wheels that is.
(I’ve seen the Big Boy a couple of times.)
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Ahh. See what you mean, 5 inches difference is noticeable
Southern Railway #630 on a deadhead run, passing through Lexington, Kentucky. May 2014.
I was very Grateful to have spotted it totally by accident.
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You shoot, you SCORE!
Kentucky Railway Museum; years ago when they were still located down on River Rd. in Louisville{
All Photos Copyright © Mike Koenig ~ All Rights Reserved
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Michael, thanks for posting these. Very nice.
All my trips to and through louisville, I never made it there. You said it used to be there. Where is it now?