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Title: POST YOUR BRIDGES on Layouts
Post by: CNJRR on January 04, 2021, 10:08:16 AM
Post the bridges you have, on or off the layout.

I have a few I can post.
I pulled out this first, I don't really know the manufacturer or year.
Measures 26" Long
5 1/4" wide
& 5 1/2" to the top of the tower.
This one is naturally weathered. :)
Has two red lights/bulbs up top.
I like it, don't know about painting yet as it has a nice patina now, maybe add some rust and use it either as a train bridge or a vehicular bridge without painting it. 
Anyone recognize it?
This one needs a home somewhere, I took it down off a shelf.


 



EDIT,
IF THIS IS POSTED IN THE WRONG PLACE YOU CAN MOVE IT? RIGHT?

Title: Re: POST YOUR BRIDGES on Layouts
Post by: pjdog350 on January 04, 2021, 10:30:15 AM
What we need hear CNJRR is more pictures of your layout. It looks most interesting from what I can see in the background of your bridge picture.
Title: Re: POST YOUR BRIDGES on Layouts
Post by: CNJRR on January 04, 2021, 10:49:09 AM
You got to tell me about the bridge first.  :)

My layout is in pieces all over the basement...........long story.
Little by little I am getting it together again.
I will eventually start a Layout thread.
Title: Re: POST YOUR BRIDGES on Layouts
Post by: Terry on January 04, 2021, 11:36:52 AM
That's a Junoir Bridge. They were made in the early 1950s by a Junoir Acheivement group in a NJ town near Lionel with the advice of Lionel workers. That version also comes in green.

They made a few kinds of bridges with the most common being a trestle bridge like the weird one I posted at:

https://www.train99.com/forum/index.php?topic=68.0

They also made a 2-track signal bridge.

A good use for bridges is as shelves. Two screws in the wall and it will hold a loco and tender.
Title: Re: POST YOUR BRIDGES on Layouts
Post by: CNJRR on January 04, 2021, 12:44:57 PM
Yes, that is it, Junior Bridge Company of Ridgefield Park, New Jersey. Not too far from the Lionel plant that was in Irvington, NJ.
Did some googling.

Shelfs on the wall? I didn't think of that.
Title: Re: POST YOUR BRIDGES on Layouts
Post by: starfire700 on January 29, 2021, 12:04:04 PM
I have 2 American Flyer wooden trestle bridges on the upper level of my layout. One is the long  bridge with lights and tele poles, missing 1 pole.
I also showed a Marklin overhead foot bridge......does that count as a bridge?
Title: Re: POST YOUR BRIDGES on Layouts
Post by: Terry on January 29, 2021, 12:36:48 PM
Here's two more American Flyer bridges:

 


 


Black shelf unit is 4 feet long. Lower is Salt Lake like Jim's above but with a different plate. I have both poles but only one light. The small ramps are usually missing.

Shorter one is O gauge. I sold an O gauge one like the one above, but with a bridgekeepers house on the top in the middle a year or so ago. O gauge doesn't get ramps.

Title: Re: POST YOUR BRIDGES on Layouts
Post by: CNJRR on January 30, 2021, 10:16:51 AM
I have 2 American Flyer wooden trestle bridges on the upper level of my layout. One is the long  bridge with lights and tele poles, missing 1 pole.
I also showed a Marklin overhead foot bridge......does that count as a bridge?

Sure it does, thanks for posting I never saw one before. You too Terry.
There are trestle bridges and some bridges have trestles.  :)
Copy and paste,
A bridge is a structure that connects two or more points allowing access across railways, rivers, streams, ravines, etc., whereas a trestle is a framework structure that some long bridges are built upon. That framework consists of vertical, slanted and cross pieces that are used to support the bridge.
Title: Re: POST YOUR BRIDGES on Layouts
Post by: CNJRR on January 30, 2021, 10:27:12 AM
My trestle bridge.

 


 
Title: Re: POST YOUR BRIDGES on Layouts
Post by: pjdog350 on January 30, 2021, 12:32:50 PM
Your trestle is real nice. I love it. Birds on it too.
Title: Re: POST YOUR BRIDGES on Layouts
Post by: starfire700 on January 31, 2021, 05:02:08 AM
Nice work on the wood trestle with birds. Did you make it, a kit, or purchased pre-built?
Title: Re: POST YOUR BRIDGES on Layouts
Post by: CNJRR on January 31, 2021, 01:34:51 PM
Nice work on the wood trestle with birds. Did you make it, a kit, or purchased pre-built?

A guy I knew made these among other structures and bridges, just the wooden part. He made N/HO/S and O bridges. Some G scale if someone asked.
The rest I made up, still not done yet.
The speckled pigeons (Columba guinea's) or funny looking seagulls, take your pick, I painted up.  :) Hard finding O scale birds.
As with my people they fly to other parts on the layout occasionally.
The pilings I made up out of scrap wood.
The reeds I grabbed local in the wetlands. I brought them home and dried them then hit them with hair spray. The green ones with the punks I bought.
The blue I have to tone down, and the trestle just sits on the water for now. Nothing secure right now.
The bulkhead rocks I made out of old mushroom containers which are a foam like material, I carved in the blocks.
Still need to add more things and finish up.
I took a few quick pictures of the birds.

 
 
Title: Re: POST YOUR BRIDGES on Layouts
Post by: starfire700 on February 02, 2021, 04:28:17 AM
A nice scale look including the birds.
Title: Re: POST YOUR BRIDGES on Layouts
Post by: CNJRR on February 02, 2021, 12:30:24 PM
 Thanks but I suck at taking pictures.  :)
Title: Re: POST YOUR BRIDGES on Layouts
Post by: starfire700 on February 03, 2021, 04:45:30 AM
Don't underestimate yourself. You have good lighting and I can see all the details, unless there was some bird doodoo that I missed seeing. LOL
Title: Re: POST YOUR BRIDGES on Layouts
Post by: CNJRR on February 03, 2021, 06:53:15 AM
This is the pilings with bird crap before I toned them down. :) I over did it a little. lol
These are old pictures. It is there, you can't see it in the pictures.


 


Edit, I have to change the bird picture somehow so it enlarges.
But you can see all the bird crap before I toned it down, I did over do it some at first. :)
Title: Re: POST YOUR BRIDGES on Layouts
Post by: pjdog350 on February 03, 2021, 09:41:21 AM
I don’t think you over did it. I have spent allot of time on the water and bridges look like that!!!
Title: Re: POST YOUR BRIDGES on Layouts
Post by: starfire700 on February 04, 2021, 04:14:33 AM
It does look realistic, except is that Bullwinkle in the boat with the Michelin man?
Title: Re: POST YOUR BRIDGES on Layouts
Post by: CNJRR on February 05, 2021, 02:18:04 PM
Somehow I got to fix the 2 pictures that don't enlarge. Or else take new ones, I don't know why they don't work.

That is Santa Claus & Rudolph in his Kris Kringle Craft speedboat on vacation after Christmas.  :)


Title: Re: POST YOUR BRIDGES on Layouts
Post by: starfire700 on February 06, 2021, 05:09:47 AM
I did not recognize Santa with a green shirt.