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The NMRA Trestle Bridge
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Sun, 28 Aug 2005 02:02:19 GMT
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Hello Everyone!
I’ve never posted a MOC on LUGNET before, but I’m not new to building. First,
let me introduce myself: My name is Jeramy Spurgeon, current IndyLUG president
and avid LEGO train fan!
The trestle bridge and surrounding 6 x 6 baseplate area (including the covered
bridge) was built by me starting in February of this year and finalized in June,
prior to the NMRA National Train Show. It was inspired by a local “O” gauge
model club that has a very nice curved trestle bridge on their layout. I had
mentioned at a show we did with them in February, that that would be a great
project to do in LEGO. My fellow club members thought I was crazy, but the gears
of construction began to turn in my head. Here are some pics of the inspired
model:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/bricks/2005kidsexpo/Sunday/image030.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/bricks/2005kidsexpo/Sunday/image029.jpg
I began to work how to make this in LEGO. I had seen several LEGO versions of
trestle bridges, especially inspired by the one built by the PNLTC a few years
ago (links currently unavailable).
It took me a few months to gather all the needed parts, what would we ALEs/AFOLs
do without Bricklink??
The progress pictures are here (with a few new ones added to show how each
individual trestle was made):
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=119785
As you may be able to tell from the pics, I used 1x1 tile with clip on top with
the 1x2 plate with handle to work out the angled beams. 1x1 plates with
headlight clips were used to attach the angled supports. The 1x1 headlight
bricks allow for the tiles and plates to be placed on the side, which is really
where the stability comes from.
A test build in June before the Big Show:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/bricks/NMRA/Preliminary/image010.jpg
which also gives you an idea of the area I built to accomodate the bridge.This
area was designed to compliment the incredible mountain scene built by my fellow
IndyLugger, Brian Darrow:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=115505
At first, I was concerned about how stable the bridge would be, but after
connecting all of the track and then attaching it to the rock walls, it was way
more stable than I could have imagined!
As for the questions asked in this thread, I just took my inspiration mostle
from the “O” scale bridge and various images found while Googling. I did decide
to create a smaller bridge into the Trestle that crossed the water because the
same questions came to me when designing the bridge. I bypassed this by creating
an area of the bridge that simply went “over” the water rather than having
stanchions stuck into the water itself. This inspiration came from a picture in
an older issue of Model Railroader magazine.
Well, I hope this sheds a little light on the trestle bridge construction
process. I,myself, have never taken really good pictures of it, so I hope these
Brickshelf account owners don’t mind me pointing to some of their pictures:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/zephyr1934/NMRA-2005/nmra-2005.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/lar/shows/NMRAJuly05/Thursday/dscn5500.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/DecoJim/NMRA2005/indylug05.jpg
Questions?
--Jeramy
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) I like the way you've used 1x1 round plates to connect to the slip plates on the stanchions. They grip the back to back studs better than other plates, whilst giving a suitable clearance from the stanchions themselves. How long did it take to (...) (19 years ago, 28-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Timber trestle crossing water
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| (...) Well, I have say the person who made the bridge at the NMRA show has set the standard. (URL) Maybe its creator could pass along some info??? Adr. (19 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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