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ge_rik wrote: ↑Thu May 10, 2018 7:51 am Thanks. I always thought they were R1 and so never bothered with planning for them. A single slip would have been useful at my main station and so a double slip would give an added bonus. Must keep an eye open for a secondhand one.

Rik

I've tried the configuration in Anyrail (that's the progamme I use for designing) and it's definitely R3. The 16000 track fits nicely across the radius of the double slip turnout. You could try grootspoor for one..

The past two days I've been working on a new bridge section in the Alpstein bridge. It lacked a section because I relocated 2 smaller sections and removed a stone pier to another spot. This left a gap of 55cm in the bridge.



My choice was to build this section a bit different than the other 4 sections. It's a longer and is in full sight all around, so I wanted this section to look attractive.



It's built of aluminium, 55cm long which makes the bridge total a 175cm in length. The bridge is 57cm at it's highest point.



On the bridge I made guardrails from old trackpieces, to keep loco's on the bridge if they would derail, but merely it's an extra visual spot of interest.



The washers on the piers have to be cast in concrete yet, but these washers allow me to get the hight of the track just right. I've painted the bridge the same colour as the rest of the bridge pieces by now.

If the pictures don't work, please refresh your screen. It helps most of the time.

It’s full of visual interest now Dann, but even more is so now.

I have only just noticed the long catch rails you use, good idea.

Love the bridge says a bridge builder. Was the curved base pre-curved or have you bent it yourself ?

I have to say I do like open bridges.

I've bent it myself by bolting the two pieces together. It you bend one L shaped angle, it will curve outward, but if you bolt 2 back-to-back, they will keep straight when bending.
I've made two overlength pieces and marked them every 5cm. Then bent them by hand in a workmate and a vice and checked the curve by unbolting the angle and reverse one of them on top of the other to check if the left and right section where even. Then cut them to length and pieced together the rest of the frame..

The catchrails are screwed down on the ties by drilling a 2mm hole through the rail from top to bottom, and using very small screws. This way it's very easy to make them and cheap (because it's a tieless secondhand R1 curve at 1,50 euro's a piece)

Yes, check rails a good idea on the open bridge. If a train fell off could be expensive. Also dangerous for your 16mm scale passengers. If the fall didn't prove fatal they could still be eaten by the crocs

The check rails are also prototypical.

Ian

invicta280 wrote: ↑Sun May 13, 2018 3:30 pm
Also dangerous for your 16mm scale passengers. If the fall didn't prove fatal they could still be eaten by the crocs

Loving the bridge

FWLR wrote: ↑Mon May 14, 2018 6:59 am

invicta280 wrote: ↑Sun May 13, 2018 3:30 pm
Also dangerous for your 16mm scale passengers. If the fall didn't prove fatal they could still be eaten by the crocs

You can laugh about it, but it has happened in the everglades in 1993. There a highspeed deluxe train derailed on a bridge because a barge had hit it, falling into a river full of aligators..

Thanks for the nice comments on the bridge! I still don't have a movie made, because the locomotives struggled up to the triangle and even stalled. It turned out that a part of the track in the back sank away in the ground for over 2,5cm the past few years, resulting in a very steep incline to the triangle. I dug the concrete slabs out and filled the underground piers up with tiles untill the track was level again.

This afternoon the trackbed is cast in concrete again. It should work a lot better now..

Looking great, Daan. The bridge sections look very prototypical. Always amazes me how strong spidery looking structures can be. To my mind, tower cranes should buckle the moment they attach those concrete counter weights and as for girder bridges! Those on the Centovalli in Switzerland should have fallen down years ago! Rik

Don’t think I was laughing at real people for one minute Daan, it’s just the way invicta280 put it.

I wouldn’t laugh at such a terrible thing, so chill mate, life’s too short. And I did say your line was full of visual interest but more so now.

FWLR wrote: ↑Wed May 16, 2018 7:15 am Don’t think I was laughing at real people for one minute Daan, it’s just the way invicta280 put it.

I wouldn’t laugh at such a terrible thing, so chill mate, life’s too short. And I did say your line was full of visual interest but more so now.

No offense in any way, don't worry..

A first small movie from the newly (re)built railway. The leveling pays off: My little new steamloco "Bollenwees" can now pull 9 cars and has steam to spare..

That's brilliant Daan. Love the turntable, are you going to motorise it.

That pretty little loco looks right at home there Daan. Thanks for sharing.
PS no dip on that turntable!

Enjoyed that video Daan. Very realistic speed as the little loco picked its way carefully around the curves.
Great choice of plants along the lineside too.

Thanks for the kind remarks! Regarding the turntable, I've placed a bolt through the axle which keeps it in place when a locomotive rolls onto it. The turntable itself will stay manual, since I'm always around when it's in use. I like to keep things as simple as possible..
The best thing about the slow running locomotive is that she maintains this speed without inertia device and on manual control. The levelled track is really paying off! I've also cast the thin bridgesupports which I used to level out the bridge in concrete, giving the bridge a more solid look. This weekend I'll hopefully be able to test the other loco's..

Today was the big tryout of all the other locomotives on the layout. I had a batteryproblem on the small red diesel, it wasn't charging due to a faulty charger, so that one only plays a very small part in the clip.
The rest of the locomotives + departure and arrival at the station, turning by turntable and all the new nice places to look at on the new parts on the layout are in this video.



All loco's run without hitting something, though I need to move one of the waterfeeders in the station and with the roundhouse locomotive I can only use the turntable from one side, since her profile is wider than the other loco's.

Hope you enjoy