4.16. Abandoned Stone Arch Road Bridge
I'd built this elaborate, detail-rich abandoned bridge for the White River & Northern IV from old Chooch tunnel portals and retaining walls, based loosely on one I'd seen in eastern Pennsylvania. It was one of the few things from the WR&N IV layout that I'd kept, and when I came across it during a scavenger hunt for ideas, it became the centerpiece of a whole new scene on the Mountain Vista Railroad.
I liked this model too much to lose it, so I rearranged the roads to squeeze it into the current layout, along with a new truss bridge. "Squeeze" is a good term, because I felt the bridge was too wide, so I sliced it in half on a table saw and narrowed it down by over a half-inch.
By mid-June 2021 I'd weeded it over and declared it done.
Reference
The abandoned stone arch bridge in Stoddard, New Hampshire, is remarkably similar to what I'd modeled roughly two decades earlier.
