Funky tram bridge

[velotrain]

I was looking at photos of cable-stayed bridges and ran across this - in the Netherlands.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There's also a guy who sells N-scale cable-stayed bridges on e-Bay, but they look a bit chunky to me.

 

 

 

[The Next Station Is...]

The Netherlands tram bridge is amazing, I'm assuming given the size of it that it's not just for the tram line?

 

As for the model bridges, they look like great examples for laser-cut structures...

[velotrain]

There's a Wiki article on it, indicating it also carries a road.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enne%C3%BCs_Heerma_Bridge

 

It's actually over a decade old.  I think here in the U.S. we perceive cable-stayed bridges as something very new, but the Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam is almost two decades old.  

 

I'll probably add a tram line bridge adjacent to the Harumi bridge on my module, and considered the Tomix truss bridge, but felt that it would dwarf the older bridge - which I didn't want.

 

I considered a low-profile concrete bridge, but then thought a cable-stayed bridge might be fun.

Since the ones on eBay didn't appeal to me visually or financially, I thought of making my own, probably an asymmetrical spar design, such as these:

 

 

[velotrain]

I found another image of it, showing the roadway.

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/voor-lezers/6702935017/in/photostream/

 

I'm wondering if the catenary on the road part is for trolley-buses.

[kvp]

I'm wondering if the catenary on the road part is for trolley-buses.

On street view it's visible that the wires only carry the lights. So at night, the lamps appear to float over the bridge. It's a very interesting design. I found another interesting structure, an elevated section in Hague:

Edited August 27, 2014 by kvp

[velotrain]

I wonder how that "tube" would be received in downtown Tokyo?  

I'm sure they'd love it in London  ;-)

 

At first I was thinking it was added expense, but then noticed the long span between upright supports, indicating how much strength it adds to the design.

 

I found a site with some great bridge, and other, photos - including some tram content:

 

http://www.redditweekly.com/weekly?s=best&subreddit=InfrastructurePorn&to_time=1375574399

 

I also found an image showing that the "catenary" over the road lanes is indeed only for the length of the bridge.

 

Someone built a model (the engineers?), but it probably isn't the scale we need  ;-)

Maybe we should ask Artitec if they'd do it?

 

 

 

 

 

[westfalen]

On street view it's visible that the wires only carry the lights. So at night, the lamps appear to float over the bridge. It's a very interesting design. I found another interesting structure, an elevated section in Hague:

It would be a bit hard to clean the track in that. :)

[macdon]

It would be a bit hard to clean the track in that. :)

 

I saw the same pic while I was researching tube related trackway for my pvc tube station and took a few minutes to imagine how it would look and the possible steps to constructing it ............. I immediately abandoned the idea when I asked myself how I would be able to clean that. Lol!

 

Maybe as short pieces at both ends of a station or something wherein you could use those track cleaners with a handle or run the tomic track cleaner car.

 

Mardon

[Spaceman Spiff]

Velotrain,

 

 

I bought my bridge (single track) from that ebay seller. I think it looks ok once it's on a layout.

 

 

 

 

Spiff

Edited August 29, 2014 by Spaceman Spiff

[Mudkip Orange]

That NL road/tram thing is one ugly-ass bridge. But it's not a cable stay, it's an arch.

 

As far as cable stayed bridges being "new" the Skybridge (Vancouver) is 24 years old and the Baytown Bridge turns 19 next month.

[velotrain]

> That NL road/tram thing is one ugly-ass bridge.

 

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/there's_no_accounting_for_taste

 

 

>  But it's not a cable stay, it's an arch.

I never said it was.  

I wrote:  "I was looking at photos of cable-stayed bridges and ran across this - in the Netherlands."

 

I can't control what Google Search turns up.

[velotrain]

As a follow-up, this is a proposed bridge for the new Edmonton LRT Valley Line.

 

 

[velotrain]

I had uploaded the photo, but apparently it got disconnected from the post.