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| New bridge at the west end of the Fort Frances yard. |
Ever since I started dreaming about, designing and then building the CP Rail Manitoba & Minnesota Sub., I wanted to have a bridge or two spanning the yard in the town of Fort Frances.
In the very early days, before any scenery was applied, I put long pieces of balsa on wood "abutments" to simulate bridges--just to see what it looked like.
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| Bridge at the east end. |
The idea behind the bridges was that they would help break the town scene into discrete sections, a way of breaking up the long expanse of town and yard.
Over the last number of years, I accumulated Rix bridge kits, with the idea that I would, one day, get around to building those bridges.
Well, almost 20 years have gone by, and I never got around to building those kits.
But then my friend Arnold Walker began to take down his amazing Northland Route layout. In October, I was able to get his fantastic Pioneer grain elevator for the M & M Sub. This month, I was able to get two of his bridges.
(I told him that, piece-by-piece, the Northland Route is moving north to my layout from his.)
The bridges needed to be cut to fit my space; a hacksaw took care of that easily enough.
After using a bit of glue to fix them in place, and then I finally had those bridges I've wanted for so long.
I've always liked using overpasses this way. As you say, it breaks up the yard but it also somehow seems to make the space look bigger. Nice. work.
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