4.10. Kapuscinski Bridge
The original White River & Northern had a curved wooden trestle and a short truss span.
It was built from balsa stripwood stained with coffee. (The layout smelled great on warm, humid days.)
For the Greystone & Rock Bottom remake, I straightened out the trestle, ditched the truss, and moved the S-curve to the lower track. I also generated artwork to laser-cut most of the parts.
Although this was a definite improvement, it did not survive when the Greystone was decommissioned. When I started work on the Mountain Vista Railroad, I was originally going to build a new wooden trestle. However, somewhere along the line I switched to a steel trestle, and as much as I love wooden trestles, I liked this one a bit better for the setting.
I used the steel trestle from the Mountain Vista, although its depth created an issue where the line crosses over itself. A couple of reference photos provided a solution to the problem, as did a pair of Micro Engineering girders and some Evergreen strip styrene.
The trestle was completed, painted and installed on 13 May 2021.
Reference
This bridge outside of Gilead, New Hampshire, provided guidance for the Mountain Vista version:
This unknown bridge is of the same ilk:
These examples offered a means to deal with the clearance issue on the current layout:
Named For
Ed Kapuscinski is a fellow modeler who has very kindly volunteered to keep my websites online after I'm gone.
