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| STRUCTURES;
There
are not many structures on the railway (ie.buildings) as I seem to enjoy
building locos & rolling stock but as the railway grows they will appear! I have included tunnels, bridges & a few other things in this section as they don't fit anywhere else. |
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| 5
SPAN STEEL GIRDER BRIDGE;
This is a steel I-Beam girder bridge, it was going to be longer but after puting in 3000 rivets I decided to shorten it! The piers & abutments are carved lime stone coated with a cement slurry to keep the moisture out. The lime stone is mortared into poistion with the girders screwed to the track & sitting in place. To get the closer spacing of sleepers I cut the spacers out & added an extra long one every 6th sleeper to support the walkway. I added thin planking & railings on the walkway to finish, these bridges are a common site here in the South Island over our wide shinge bradded rivers. |
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| Work begins with the foundation. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| First
2 spans in place, each span has 600 pin heads for rivets! |
All piers & abutments in place. | The
end result! Now we wait to landscape the shingle river-bed. |
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| THE
TROUBLESOME TUNNEL;
The tunnel is made up of a piece of irrigation line the right size to
fit the Bachmann Big haulers with concrete over the top & a carved Lime-Stone portal. This seamed to be a good idea at the time as 1:24 & 1:29 the 2 scales I model fit well, but then on club day runs you have to proceed with caution as cabooses, Shay funnels, Hiesler funnels tend not to go through hence a special train advise in the club newsletter when it's my running day. So be warned if you visit with rolling stock, proceed with extreme caution when approaching the Tunnel! |
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The
East end of the tunnel before the cement slurry was added. If it was'nt water proofed the frost would blow it to bits! |
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| The
west end with a treated pine retaining wall to add variation. |
A stone
retaining wall has been added to the bridge to act as a rocky ledge. |
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The end
result at the east end with track ballasted & everything tidy. |
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| WOODEN
TRUSS BRIDGE:
The truss bridge is the oldest structure on the railway as it survived
from my first railway of 5yrs. The bridge is built from treat pine (same as the retaining walls in the picture) so has lasted 8yrs so far & is taking heavier traffic now! The abutments are again carved lime stone but these ones blew apart from frost before I got the cement slurry on. It is modelled from the eariler style bridges NZR used and adds a bit of character to the scene. |
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| BELOW ARE JUST GENERAL VIEWS OF THE RAILWAY TAKING SHAPE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Other
leg of the railway showing the yard & control stands for the wiring. Track has been ballasted in the foreground. (2004) |
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| The
passing loop on the back straight with the truss bridge in the distance. (2002) |
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| Overall
view of construction of the bridge & road bed in the foreground. (2002) |
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