Large Scale Central

Loop Rebuild

Track and Trestles
#181

Bob, Am I seeing a curved track on a deck truss bridge? Oh My, de ja vou., all over again.

Looking great, I’m so envious of all the space you have to run on.

#182

Bob that area looks great. Its going to be a perfect photo spot. The rock work looks great.

#183

Dave: a ballasted through truss. Im cheating, I dont want to build 21 feet of hand laid bridge ties if I dont have to! :slight_smile:

#184

Curious why you couldn’t just hang everything from bottom of the PVC roadbed. Excuse my ASCII art of an end view, didn’t feel like uploading a drawing…

Girder Track/PVC Bed Girder

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Then Fill it all with ballast. Granted it would be more ballast and more weight and would require something substantial to be the bottom piece.

EDIT - OK, that didn’t work. It looked fine in preview but when it posted all the spaces were compressed out.

Never mind :slight_smile:

#185

This morning I drilled all the holes for the footing bolts.

(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/bob_mccown/Trackwork/LowerLoop/2012-05-19_1.jpg)

#186

(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/bob_mccown/Trackwork/LowerLoop/2012-05-19_2.jpg)

#187

Do you really think they need to be screwed down?

#188

If your winds blow as hard as ours do sometimes…

#189
David Russell said:
Do you really think they need to be screwed down?
If a Rooster decided to perch on top then yes ;)
#190
Doug Arnold said:
If your winds blow as hard as ours do sometimes...
Just don't stand too close to it... :P :lol: :D :)
#191

Hey folks Done a bunch more rock/fill work, more concrete block sub-supports, and some brick facing done.

(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/bob_mccown/Trackwork/Misc/2012-06-16_17-11-25_968.jpg)

#192

(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/bob_mccown/Trackwork/Misc/2012-06-17_18-09-47_118.jpg)

#193

Here you can see the concrete block that will be the backing for the next arch bridge pair. The spline underneath is for the future branchline. Needed to account for it now.

(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/bob_mccown/Trackwork/Misc/2012-06-17_18-09-56_931.jpg)

#194

Very nice Bob.

#195

And put some final ballast on one side of the bridge over Majestic

(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/bob_mccown/Trackwork/Misc/2012-06-16_17-11-07_313.jpg)

#196

Ya’ know you can always find a spot for the Aristo freight depot …looks good

#197

Looks real good Bob. Looks like you’ve been busy.

#198

Love the rock work!

#199

Thanks. Coming along nicely, I think. Lots of fill to move a wheelbarrow load at a time, but the rocks stack up nicely. :slight_smile:

#200

Some more work this weekend.

(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/bob_mccown/Trackwork/LowerLoop/2012-06-24_17-19-34_841.jpg)