Thanks Giving Weekend Photo Fun 11-27/11-30
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GrampysTrains
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Hi all: I've been working on signs this week. Here's an Alco RS-27 leading a West bound local past a keystone whistle post.
jbaakko
Diesel Detail Freak
Nice photo, I see SC tower in the back, did you hear SO tower burned down? Seems they assume it was arson, as there were no utilities.
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
L&A and MGRy freights coming through on the mains while BNSF SD40 #6319 stays out of the way on the crossover track.
Joe, you do need more static. I just figured out what the problem is with the highway overpass. You have the top of the plate girders even the top of the rail. That's the opposite of how a plate girdter bridge should be. The bottom of the girders should be even with the roadbed, which would give you a lot more clearance. You'd have to rework those abutments but the girders should be sitting at about the top level of the current abutment rather than down so low.
Gramps, great looking scene. Nothing says Pennsy like one of those keystone whistle posts.
Jeffrey, I think you've squeezed every bit of clearance you can under your bridge.
I just figured out what the problem is with the highway overpass. You have the top of the plate girders even the top of the rail. That's the opposite of how a plate girdter bridge should be. The bottom of the girders should be even with the roadbed, which would give you a lot more clearance. You'd have to rework those abutments but the girders should be sitting at about the top level of the current abutment rather than down so low. Gramps, great looking scene. Nothing says Pennsy like one of those keystone whistle posts.
Jeffrey, I think you've squeezed every bit of clearance you can under your bridge.
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
Yep. It's made to sit across 4 closely spaced tracks but I have it sitting two tracks that are about 25 scale feet apart.Jeffrey, I think you've squeezed every bit of clearance you can under your bridge.
jbaakko
Diesel Detail Freak
That's because he's got a deck girder, not a through girder.Joe, you do need more static.
Deck:
http://structsource.com/images/stldeck.jpg
Through:
http://structsource.com/images/thru.jpg
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NYC_George
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That's a great model and photo Grampys. How about a shot of the crossing.
Joe I like that tree.
NYC_George
Joe I like that tree.
NYC_George
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OK, let me rephrase that. If you switch from a deck girder to a through girder bridge, you'll gain about 14 scale feet of clearance. Like I said, it should just be a matter of changing abutments and either getting through girder bridge or gluing plate girders to the sides of the road bed to simulate a through girder bridge.
GrampysTrains
Member
Hi NYC George: Here's a shot of the crossing.
NYC_George
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4 track crossing
I wanted to see if it was dangerous. I can see it is. When I was a fireman we hit a few cars and I watched as they flipped over and over and both times the people got out unharmed. They were very lucky. One of them was a friend who now drives a concrete truck. He has delivered to some jobs that I've worked. I tell everyone back in 1973 I hit that guy with a train.
NYC_George
I wanted to see if it was dangerous. I can see it is. When I was a fireman we hit a few cars and I watched as they flipped over and over and both times the people got out unharmed. They were very lucky. One of them was a friend who now drives a concrete truck. He has delivered to some jobs that I've worked. I tell everyone back in 1973 I hit that guy with a train.
NYC_George
GrampysTrains
Member
Thanks George. And thank you, too, Jim. That is an outstanding city scene. I'll bet you're preparing for the Dec. photo contest.
Thank you, Gramps, I am indeed. I've got one aerial shot of downtown with all the little LED lights strung across the streets and in the trees at the courthouse that I think looks pretty good. If anyone is looking for almost HO scale size LED Christmas light strings, K-Mart has them for $7.99 for 35 flashing colored lights or 50 white lights. They are pretty good quality LED's and the white lights would work great for locomotive headlights and streetlights. They have a yellowish cast that's an almost perfect match for incandescent lights.
