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Re: Building Bridges
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Date: 
Mon, 29 Nov 1999 10:01:00 GMT
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Impressive piece of engineering says the civil engineer in me. Not to
sure about you choice of blue for the columns though.


In lugnet.trains, Steve Martin writes:
In lugnet.trains, Jeff Elliott writes:
The whole layout is about 26'7" long.


I would love to see pictures of this?  Do you have a website?

Steve Martin

http://www.telepres.com/~jeffe/lsite/projects/trainbridge/index.html

Kinda - I'm notoriously bad at keeping it up-to-date.  I've got
2 snaps of the 1st edition bridge - chain-link, single-track,
very thin deck.  Send me mail & pester me to take some more shots
of it tomorrow when I'm at work :)  I'll post them at the same site.

I'll try to photograph the rest of the layout, too.  No buildings,
as yet.  That will change by the Holiday party - my deadline.

Jeff Elliott



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(...) Glad you didn't design any bridges *I* have to cross. :-) I wasn't too surprised to hear the deck flexes. it needs to be a truss, or at least a much deeper girder. No way is 4 bricks of depth enough for a 20-30 inch span. c.f. "Galloping (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)

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(...) (URL) - I'm notoriously bad at keeping it up-to-date. I've got 2 snaps of the 1st edition bridge - chain-link, single-track, very thin deck. Send me mail & pester me to take some more shots of it tomorrow when I'm at work :) I'll post them at (...) (25 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)

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