George and Doug, thank you for the very kind words! I appreciate it very much!!
I had a very nice diversion from life. I have been planning to model the Big Run Culvert and the Tubs Run Viaduct on the Blackwater grade, with some areas from Thomas and Davis at the top, and some of Hendricks at the bottom. There is a river crossing at Hendricks which I had in the back of my mind to model. There is a ho hum girder bridge there. When Menards released their through truss bridge this week, I thought that would be nice, but if I stay to the prototype, I can't use one. When I saw Cabinet Bob's photos of one on his topic, it suddenly dawned on me that I thought I had seen a through truss bridge at Parsons, just a bit upstream towards Elkins. Yes, I was right.
Hmmm...Looks a lot like the Menards release. Here is one of Bob's photos.
Yes, it will do nicely!! I will have items from Hendricks/Parsons at the bottom end of the layout. Sometime, I will work the scenic items up on a plan to show their general location better. For right now, it is fun to think about and visualize when I walk into the mostly empty room!!
