One year, back in the very dark ages, I arrived from college in Meridian just before Christmas. Om my way I went by a hobby shop. they had had something in stock that I was planning on buying to give to my dad. Whatever it was, it was sold, and I arrived at home with no gift , and very little time.
Dad had the drawings for his railroad, and he had a section of it, behind the annex, supported on traditional benchwork, and there was a section of it, that started on a concrete block retaining wall, and wandered into the piney woods from there. Dad had some of the track on the bench work built, right up to the drawn bridge, and he had some of the track going off into the woods, but Dad had not started the bridge, so the two sections for track dad had started were unconnected.
I fired up the table saws (horribly underpowered Dremil 4 inch saws (I had two available, mine and my Mom's) and with the resulting Lumber, staying up most all the night, I knocked out this bridge, which if I measured right ( it is past my bed time) is designed to span a 52 inch gap. I might be able to shorten it, but I would prefer not to.
We made an insanely brief visit to Mississippi this Labor day weekend, and I removed this bridge from Dad's #1 gauge tinplate RR, that we are dismantling, and brought it home to see if the Little River Railroad could use this 30 year old bridge.
Bill