On Saturday I decided to tackle the bridge that will carry both the oval main line and figure-eight line of track in the rear section of the layout. For this, I purchased a set of pier girders as well as a warren truss bridge kit. With a little modification, I attached two bridge girders together using a third girder.
When these were dry, I attached bridge sides of the warren truss kit to the girder deck. I used a few scrap pieces of styrene to add additional support to the trusses. The final look and design looks pretty decent. I placed the bridge onto my layout and used foam shims on each end so it was level with the track. I then finished with butting foam roadbed right up to the bridge deck.
The bridge will still need to be painted to for some added realism, but this will happen at a later time. I also had to add a foam extension to the main line curve as shown in the photo below (under the 15 pound weight). This extension was the result of a measuring mistake I made early in my original planning. Thankfully this was an easy fix. Trackbed was also added at this time to both tracks at the rear of the layout.
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