Now and again, we come across a photo that is just asking to be modeled. For the new branch line out of Onondaga Yard, I needed to construct an underpass where it crosses beneath the Onondaga Cutoff Main Line. I had planned on a simple concrete tunnel, narrow and height-restricted to less than 16 scale feet.
Last week, however, regular Trainmaster Rich W. forwarded a photo to me courtesy of Fred Chidester, which shows a bridge that has presented itself to be the perfect prototype for the underpass. This deck-girder bridge, constructed in the 1930's or 1940's with the New York Central lettering and logos still obvious in 2016, will be replicated on the OC.
Atlas Model Railroad Co. makes a thru-girder bridge whose girders are a close match for this one. It is a bit of a project to cut the bridge apart and then convert the girders for use in my situation, and I will document some of that project here.
With springtime comes the annual lack of time for layout progress, but we will keep pushing as always and present that here.
~RGDave
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