While making a few forays into the eight acres of buildings with model trains this past weekend at the Amherst Railway Society's Railroad Hobby Show in West Springfield, MA (20,500+ attendees over two days!), I happened on a very nice brass bridge that looks like it will work very well in S.
It was made by Broadway Limited Imports (#1010). It was apparently designed for and sold with their HO brass I-5 Hudson (4-6-4). It was also apparently sold separately. You can look at this page: http://www.brasstrains.com/classic/Product/Detail/031045/HO-BLI-New-Haven-I-5-4-6-4-Streamlined-1409 and one of the available photos shows the bridge in the box. The bridge is made of brass with nice rivet detail. Painted black and has an HO piece of track with built-in roller bearings and wired for power and a lucite cover, so that the model could be displayed and operated -- it even included the Quantum Engineer controller to enable using the sound and light functions (after all the package was with bridge, loco, and QE was only $1395!). The bridge and display cover were sold separately from the loco for $299.99. It's not clear if the bridge only package included the QE or not. (mine did not) Anyway the bridge is brass, painted black, nicely detailed. It has a plexi base on top of the brass bridge platform that is covered to simulate planking and then has the HO track on top of that with a permanently mounted coupler to hold the loco in place. It's easy to remove to plastic base and HO track. The bridge top will need a little extra painting once this is done, as the plastic base was both screwed and glued on. The bridge top is 3 3/16" wide and almost 19" long. It accommodates S scale track very well. You could either mount the S track and use it for a display case -- the lucite cover is plenty large enough for an S engine and the lucite covers the whole top of the bridge, or you can do as I plan to and use the cover elsewhere and put the bridge on the layout. The dealer I purchased mine from was closing it out as it did not sell well for him and the price was very attractive... Just in case others are interested... Regards Michael -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Greene Dunstable, MA, USA Member: NMRA(Life), NASG, Bristol S Gaugers, The 470 Railroad Club National Assoc. of S Gaugers http://www.nasg.org DCC Corner http://www.dccinfo.com Pine Canyon Scale Models http://www.pinecanyonscalemodels.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
