Took the partially completed sections of the new trestle outside today for a trial fit and some pix.
The total bridge is just under 15 feet in length. The girder portion is a Garden Metals 35" deck girder. The idea is to model an inlet slough that is always at low tide thereby simulating a water area without the water on a 4’ wide benchwork. Ought to be an interesting challenge. hehe! Originally I’d intended to make the trestle lower than you see but a deck girder bridge just doesn’t look right skimming the ground. I think I got it about as low as I could and still have the girder look reasonable. I still have the timber guards and walkways to install and I’ll probably include guard rails as well if I can get them secured well enough without looking like Godzilla did it. hehe! An additional 8 foot section of benchwork is ready to be placed. It will be at my normal height of 40". This will bring the total benchwork thus far to almost 100 feet.