Pre-cut curved bridge decking

Hello,

i will glad to assist you.

Send me an email with you idea and we can discuss it.

Andre.

     Sir just an idea for you. I used the fine chip chip board and made A double track curved trestle. The inside line is 072 and the outside line is 077 1/2. I bought the box beam from scene express and cut both angled ends off the box beam so the ends were straight and butted them together and glued the box beam to the chip board with CA glue. I forgot to mention I did A double layer of chip board to make the trestle thicker. It all got painted flat black when I was finished. The supports I made out of roof trusses from Plastrut and thin plastic I got from A craft store. The roof trusses are 5/8 and the plastic I cut strips 5/8 and CA them together in A square. To connect the legs I used 1/4  roof trusses in between and 1/8 strips for X braces in between. Hope this helps. Choo Choo Kenny

A jig saw is all you need.  I made a long trestle with compound curves out of a piece of plywood under homasote:

 

Very nice: it turned out very well.  

 

Based on experience, I know that a project like this is much more difficult to do that if first looks.  It looks expertly done. 

Forum member and sponsor, Bridgeboss Jim.

I second PTC's recommendation for checking with Jim at Bridgeboss. I have purchased 2 O42 curved bridges from him and am very pleased with them.  Plus, Jim is a nice guy to work with.  Check it out!

I toyed with the idea of cutting my own and while it seems easy enough, between the time needed and the potential number of errors involved with maintaining the radius of the curves throughout I called Jim at Bridgeboss. He is a pleasure to work with. Just waiting for it to arrive.

Mike

Speaking of making errors, I should have mentioned:  The "concrete" facia along the edging of the trestle is cheap plastic lath that is used as a substitute for wood in finish carpentry.  It is just painted with my favorite concrete recipe, and epoxied (or hot-glued--I forget) to the edges of the cookie-cut homasote and plywood:

 

 

It bends to conform to the curve of the track and smoothes out any irregularities.  For this reason, the jig-saw work is not at all critical. Any sloppiness in the cut homasote is smoothed out by the lath and hidden by the ballast. Of course, I laid the track over the sheet material before cutting and used it as a template.

 

The only really hard part of this project was the cutting and glueing of all the fence stanchions, which I made out of HO track:

 

 

Getting them all straight drove me crazy!

 

Raising4daughters:

If you are interested I can quote straight and laminated curved wood decking (in 45 degree sections). I would need you to send me the O27 and O42 curves so I can make an accurate glue jig (I have O54 and O72 only). Some pictures are shown below.

 

 

The photos help a lot to understand and imagine how and where you could use it.  Thanks.