Nothing fancy here. I need a deck bridge over Malbaie River on the club layout.

I've been wanting to model this bridge since I saw it as a teenager in the late 90s. The prototype is located over Malbaie River, in Clermont, and is an essential link to get access to the paper mill since 1909.

I recently ordered a pair of 85' bridge from Micro Engineering, thinking I would simply build it per instruction. However, a recent visit at Clermont shown me the bridge is a skewed one. Thus, I decided to tackle the challenge of modifying the original kit, add a walkway along the bridge (as per prototype) and scratchbuilt concrete piers.



So far, modifying the bridge was an easy affair. No need to hack and saw the parts, I just glued them together differently to get a nice angle look. The bridge will be painted black... heavily weathered black with peeling paint effect if I can manage it. I'm not very fond of ME bridge track. Honestly, I don't understand why they make it in such short lenght, except to safe package.I already can see a challenge there.



Matt

Hi there from Australia, my name is Dave, 70 years young and an avid model railroader by Aussie standards.

I have modeled in various scales including N, OO and HO Japanese, British and American, I am building a fictitious heritage railroad located in Utah at the moment.

I guess being a big fan of geography I find learning about US railroads and the country itself a very big part of this great hobby.

I hope to learn and contribute to the forum where I can.

Regards
Dave
Downunder.

Commemorating the men and women who gave their lives in military service.

I guess this should have been posted in this weeks photo fun

A Lobster Pound it will be then.
Step one: Research, research, and once that is done, research.
Oh.......and it would help if I started the sketches and drawings.
There will be 24 "hatches" which will require 24 lift handles, and 72 hinges.
I will also have to build, ( or buy ) 15 "half drums" to keep whole thing floating.
( I guess I really should have at least one "escaping Lobster" )

I'll be building Blair Line's Blairstown General Store laser cut kit for the Kitbuild Summer 2014 Challenge. I've had this kit on the shelf for a while, good a time as any to break it out and get crackin'
It has a future home planned on The T & A outside of town down by the river....[attachment=1]image.jpg[/attachment

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A kickstarter project, that is obviously going to make it's goal, since it is at 95% after one day!

It looks like it would be great for cutting shingles, doors and windows could also be cut in layers. Thoughts? Thinking about this as an addition to the 3d printer.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/153...r-engraver

I was going to post the video from the kickstarter, but can't see how to do that here.

I'm going to attempt to build a switch tower using a small plastic box I bought at Michael's for a dollar as the base. When I saw it at the store it looked like a good size and I thought I'd cover it with siding and add commericlaly available windows etc. The box provides the structure and glazing for windows.

Here is the box in a couple of possible future locations for the tower.....

The Norhern Marches of the Empire have warmed slightly today so a bit of progress has been made. This is going to Nicks TVNAM show next month as a work in progress. The name (which means "The Swamp") is a bi-lingual pun as the railroaders refer to it as "Lacking a switch" because the layout doesn't have any - it has two bolt-on sector plates 30" long each Total length is 96". A lot more vegetation/fencing to be added, and I hope to get some roof ducting and details added before the show. Depending on the stock used the location can be changed between Florida, and Southern California/New Mexico


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