Fantastic. How will you reach out to clean repair, etc?
Spectacular!
Peter
PS: Great work!
(. . . and I thought I had built a Grand Trestle . . . )
Louis, yours simply is a masterpiece! Magnificent! It is beautifully done, and the rock wall behind it is excellent as well. Did you mention how long is is?
Looking forward to pictures of the completed project.
Alex
Thanks for the encouragement and kind words guys!
My wife Heather is responsible for the painting and ground cover, so I cant take the credit for that one. I built the trestle bents, and stained them using calligraphy ink mixed with alcohol. We have a total of about 105 hrs. in this bridge. 65 of which were just constructing the bridge bents. I used bass wood to construct the bents, and my material list is pretty close to the material that Ingeniero No1 provided in his OGR magazine article, with only a few exceptions. The bridge is 24" tall, and this particular peninsula is 9.5' wide.
Dennis - Some of the things that I would of liked to do different would have been that I would have taken the time to make the concrete foundations for the bottom of the bents like Ingeniero No1 did on his bridge. By the time I caught it, I would have had to cut each one down in height, and my patience was all used up after building the bents. So I just covered the bottoms with bushes, and ground cover. At this time I am not bracing horizontally or diagonally on the back side of the bridge. This could be done at a later time, but would have been much easier if I had done it before the front bracing was complete. I would have also cut individual pieces for the diagonal bracing on the front. I am instead just running full 24" sticks of basswood for the diagonal bracing as seen in the pictures. Also, there is actually a grade on this area of the layout. Whether it can be seen in the pictures I'm not sure. My point is this... I made my first row of horizontal bracing form the top down level with the grade of the ground, not the incline of the track. That looks great when looking at the bracing level, in comparison with the level ground below it. This means that from first row of bracing up toward the incline means that my row of diagonal bracing in the first row only will go from nothing, to 3". I'm not so sure that I shouldn't have made the bracing parallel to the incline of the track, then made the ground at the bottom crooked to have avoided this. Maybe I just looked at it too long, not to mention that I'm my worst critic of my work.
As I said.... Overall I am pleased with the bridge seeing as this has been quite a undertaking for our first scene. I am chomping at the bit to run trains (especially my son) and have some guys over to run trains for the first time since starting.
Thanks for the run thru Louis!
I appreciate you taking the time to do so!
Louis - That bridge and your layout are awesome! Wow! Crocodile Dundee would say "this is a bridge!"
Art
I'll bet Crocodile Dundee would be proud! 
OH MY GOSH! That bridge is turning out to be amazing. The scenery is truly great too.
Thanks Louis for the update.
That bridge is a work of art! Fantastic job Louis
Andy
Great work on the bridge, I have a place where you could build another one.
I enjoy following your layout building looking good. Keep it up.
Dan
Louis, Wow !! Fantastic layout and your trestle is truly a work of art.
