Thanks. Hey, I'm still learning, too. It's a never ending process.
The bridge is a Micro Engineering double plate girder bridge. It's a great kit. Plenty of detail and lots of rivets. The columns are made from Central Valley girders, which are nice. The CV girders are easier to cut from the sprue than the ones that are available from ME. CV has two gates from the sprue to feed the mold, which makes it easy to remove. ME went alittle crazy with their gating, but that may have been neccessary to ensure complete mold filling. CV girders seem to be made from a more brittle plastic ABS? as opposed to styrene. Regardless, it beats the heck out of piecing all of those lattice work sticks together if I had scratch built it.
The building model is an old Magneson Model Works store. In fact, it's just the front wall in this picture. I just covered over the windows with acetate, glued some shades made out of a buff colored drawing paper and then glued a piece of black mat board on the backside to black out the windows. I still need to do something with the store front.
I cast up some slabs out of plaster and hand carved the cobblestone sidewalk. The handrail is some .020 brass wire soldered together. I put a dab of cyanoacrylate (super) glue on top of each post to simulate a ball finial.
The bridge abutment and the sidewalk base are built up out of some stone (hydrocal plaster) strips that I made.
as for New England, yup, the prototype is in Northampton MA. The building is not the same and the bridge is not verbatum?, but it's close enough for the effect.