This is a 22" covered bridge. The design is based on pictures of two covered bridges. One bridge had the arches and the other had the walkway. The foundations will be made from Scenic Express stone walls. All wood parts are laser cut. The roofing is plastruct. Weathering is brown and black ink/alcohol wash.
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very nice bridge STU, great job, looks awesome !!!
Spectacular, Stu.
Anybody who has ever seen your work, in-person, at a trainshow, like the TCA Meet @York, knows everything you create has tremendous quality and charm. That bridge is fabulous.
Congratulations on your success with that project.
FrankM (Layout Refinements).
That's all I can say!
jpv in France
I like it!
Firstly, that is an absolutely gorgeous model.
that particular flavor of timber bridge design was used to span large gaps without central supports. One of longest timber single arch through covered bridges was close to 300ft and carried railway on top and highway below.
Bruce
beautiful work!
Stu,
that is a first class job. Beautiful work.
alan graziano
The walkway and everything, beautiful!
I just noticed that I wrote that this is a 22" bridge. This is actually a 44" bridge made up of two 22" halves. Sorry for the mistake.
Stu that's fantastic!
You ought to develop this bridge and alternate versions as kits and sell them!
I was blown away when I saw the pictures of your 22" covered bridge.
Now your saying its 44"
Now I'm blown away and I can't get up.
Awesome
russ
Outstanding. That is beautiful.
Wow 
Just wow 
Great bridge. There was an O scale kit made for a bridge outside Lancaster, Ohio by a train shop now closed. I was outbid on one in an auction...l have seen a LOT of bridges, eastern Canada's to Iowa (hope still there after Iowa tornadoes on tonight's news), but have not built a model of one as the only RR ones l know of and have seen are in Vermont. (I think the Tweetsie had some kind of unusual RR covered bridge, but have not seen a good photo of it, if any photo exists?)
As a bridge troll, I have to say that is one beautiful build.
Yes there will be stone piers in the center and on the ends. This is a combination of the arch bridge, one with a center pier, and one with the walkway.
This bridge is sized for auto traffic.
Rail Scale Models who did the cad drawings and laser cutting may do this as a kit. It would probably be 22" with one arch and the ends would be the same.
Thank you to all the bridge geeks. I always like learning more about anything I build.
Very nice work Stu!
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