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| Hey all - we just finished building a concrete bridge for the upcoming layout at Chantilly, VA. Take a look: Two modules (4 track lengths): (URL) full four modules (8 track lengths): (URL) us know what you think :) D&J (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| How many grey brick packs does it take per module? Or have you started getting the separate bricks from LD? (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) it was built with the bricks from LD, mostly. Unfortunatly, there's no 2x3s or 1x2s or the 1x4x1 arches... so those got scarce before the building was done... Still, I'm very pleased with Jenn's design there, and it's quite sturdy... and being (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Dan, It is a nice bridge, but (sorry I had to add a but) it seems that the arches are too pointy. It almost looks like the arches are gothic arches. I am more used to seeing arches that are either romanesque or flatter than romanesque (like the (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Well, the limitations of the baseplate size, and the required height pretty much dictated the arches. (...) Thanks! :) Dan (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Niiiice! But my oh my, what a lot of 1x4 grey arches! kevin (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) we had 32 in our arches bag... luckily we discovered that 6024 had 2 of them, and a friend of ours happened to have a case of those that she got from kb toy works for like $2 each. nice. :) If only the track was that cheap.... :) (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Yeah, I have at least 100 6024s I'm splitting up, and I'm keeping all of the arches ;-) (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| The columns could be taller if you wanted to make the arches more shallow. Chris P.S. It still looks better than any arched bridge that I have tried to make. (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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