White River Division

Welcome, follow along with George Dutka in his journal which documents the additions and future thoughts for the HO scale White River Division model railroad and to his continuing historical New England railroad research. The White River Division is now in its 17th modeler's season. The "modeler's season" runs from November to April each year. Inspiration comes from the Boston and Maine, Rutland and Central Vermont Railway during the 1950's with additional posts by Don Janes and Peter Mumby.

Friday, 16 October 2015

Wooden Bridge End View

A good look at the end of the bridge looking into the scene.

Thought I should have taken a few views from the isle. So here they are...as one can see the bridge does not go anywhere but does a good job hiding things...George Dutka

An overall view showing the CV line side shanty, Elwell's General Store and the main line heading under the bridge.

4 comments:

David Emery16 October 2015 at 14:30
A 'bridge to nowhere' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Duquesne_Bridge

Looks really good, but I wonder if the prototype would have trees growing so close to it. Might want to remove that one pine tree with a bit of a lean, to let the bridge model show a bit more.
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George Dutka16 October 2015 at 18:46
Hi David:
Noted that tree was leaning in the photo when working on the post...it is straight now, but your right it might be best removed...thanks. Might also pull a couple others out as they do get bumped by yours truly...George
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Hunter Hughson17 October 2015 at 14:07
Nice work! We had many of these rural crossings in southern Ontario. Still have some around.

As for the trees growing closely to the bridge, I could see it happening in rural setting on a backroad with low maintenance priorities. The alternative appears to be a giant hole in the sky into which trains disappear, which I've seen less often on the prototype than trees growing too close to a bridge :)
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