Helpful Hint - An Often-Overlooked Detail - the Overpass underside

 

Photo 1 Photograph by Andy Rubbo

There is so much to unpack in this single photo of Andy Rubbo's layout.

Any visitor to Andy Rubbo's layout will soon exhaust the list of superlatives appropriate to this extravaganza. In this blog posting, your blogger will limit himself to just one spectacular scene. Sometimes in a model railroad subsequent construction can obscure detailed areas constructed earlier - such is the case with Andy Rubbo's layout as these two photographs illustrate. Both photographs show the supporting structure of a railroad overpass before the actual overpass has been built. This small area of Andy's layout includes seventeen (17) notable features. Actually, they are not easily seen by the casual visitor to Rubbo's HO scale (1:87.1) layout.

1. Horizontal scores in the poured concrete - I believe these scores are for aesthetics but they might have a structural function as well
2. At the bottom of the concrete wall there are a pair of drainpipes with some weathering beneath
3. Pigeons roosting on girders
4. Pigeons on the sidewalk 
5. Pigeon droppings (depicted as white)
6. NO Parking sign on a scale thin iron post
7. Detailed strengthened girders 
8. Skewed riveted vertical support posts
9. Poured concrete bases
10. Steel gussets
11. Extensive use of rivets
12. Spotting on the painted silver girders
13. Webbing created by the horizontal strengthening plates
14. Expansion joints in the concrete sidewalk
15. Curb detail at sidewalk edge
16. Stop sign with accurate thin post
17. One Way sign posted on concrete wall

Photo 2 Another view Photograph by Andy Rubbo

Revised May 14, 2023