Starting the bridge

I started with building the drawbridge, photos will follow. The drive for the bridge arrived last weekend:

Walthers packed it very tight in the box:

Together with the baseplate:

Parts of the bridgekit for securing the motor:

 Mounted on the baseplate:

More to come!

First bridge has arrived!

Hi all,

The swing bridge kit has arrived today:

A lot of parts!:

The other two will be ordered this coming week. This kit will be modified to one track instead of two. A lot of work to be done!

New design

Hi there,

We are just back from our 1-month America vacation. During that btime we travelled for a part of the trip through the Northwest. After that I decided to change the theme to this side and took a piece of the Coos Bay branch of the former Southern Pacific Siskiyou Line.

This branch has 3 special bridge constructions. All 3 do have a swing bridge in it. I will build the one shown becuase I can compress this fairly easy into a layout the size I want.

The layout will be build with modules already present here. The round layout will not be build, it is too complicated. Instead it will be a straight forward runaround layout with long staging.
For that I bought from a friend 2 modules build to my own concept from my earlier exhibition layouts:

To that I build me a 3rd module that will fit in between these two. Total length will be 2,95 meters enclosed. The parts:

Floor plus background:

Without roof:

Fitting the roof, it is still losse:

Temporary fit on the rough path next to our house:

On the (Google) map. The Coos Bay area is further down::

Detail:

Streetview:

And top view:

 This is the plan that will be build:

More to come!

Lights

Stuff is inhouse:

More to come!

Signal bridge part 2

This morning I went on with the bridge. This is my work space:

The first crossbrace:

All 3 in place, testfitting the legs:

First leg glued on:

And with both:

The floorboard that is with the bridge. It has to be shortened according to the photo:

Shortened:

And testfitted with the top together on the bridge:

This is what is provided for the electric wire that is necessary to power the lights on the bridge:

I will not use that and try to find the thinnest wire possible.

More to come!

Building the Summit signal bridge

I started the signal bridge today. Modified it to look more like the one on Cascade Summit:

Started with a IHC kit:

The IHC one has to little girders in it. Also the prototype has a cross in the middle, due to the construction of the IHC kit I made two crosses in the middle.

 The photos with the sprue's:

Made some extra girders to look like the prototype:

First side finished:

And with the second one:

More to come!

Decoders

Have some older DCC decoders, printed there descriptions so that I can experiment with them for the coming days: