Thank you, Bob and Greg!
Bob, here are a couple photographs of the bridge, just for you.
He told me up front, it wasn't painted, so I'll have to do that. I'm going to beef up the end where I will put the hinges since it is of course heavier than the single track bridge. The single track one was already painted silver when I bought it. I will have to decide what color to paint it and will make it not as shiny.
Last evening I got snowbirds but on one side of the gable roof, so I'm on a roll; sort of.
Greg, that story about the Fort Laramie snowbirds makes sense. I can see why fellows would enlist for the warm winter bunk, and who was going to catch them if they deserted in spring. I agree hoagies can be hot or cold, not toasted. We stopped at a place that may have been a chain in the north suburbs of Pittsburgh a few years ago, and they were toasted so hard you could hardly bite through them. That just isn't right!!!! I'll bet the Battleship was something! I carried my lunch to high school. The cafeteria served cold hoagies every so often, but they called theirs " Mars Jet Buns" since I went to Mars High School. Bad joke. Fifty plus years ago, it was just a small rural school, now the suburbs are encroaching. I'm glad I live farther north now. It isn't the same place by far.
