March 21
The layout tour of the B&CC construction zone went well. I couldn't keep my hands off the layout during the week before the tour, but I kept the new building to finishing the iron-clad stringers and 12" poles for the ash pit. Unfortunately, my digital camera finally gave up the ghost, so I'm headed out later this week to pick a new one up.
This last week I finished laying shims and road bed up to Central City and attaching track and inserting ties along the engine facilities up to the engine house.
This week is building the bents for the NY Mill and Central City trestles. I'm still on the lookout for a prototype of a straight trestle that went over curved track where the trestle isn't a radius of the track curve (or to put it another way, the trestle forms an angle with the tangent of the curve that is not a right angle). I'm wondering if the bents on either side of track were turned to be parallel to the curve tangent or if the spacing between bents was elongated to allow for track clearance.
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