HO Scale Railroad Bridge - Hell Gate - 300' Scale Feet

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HO Scale Railroad Bridge - Hell Gate - 300' Scale Feet I have sold several dozen bridges on eBay. This is one has more of my time invested than any other. It is loosely patterned after the Hell Gate Railroad Bridge in New York. I have included a picture of the real Hell Gate Bridge for comparison. Back to the bridge that is for sale here. It is a little over 41-3/4" long, over 300 Scale Feet long. It is for one track (not included). This bridge, like all my bridges is very sturdy and will more than hold any brass engines and or their cars you could possibly run across it. It is constructed mostly of Pine and Bass Wood. Clearance into and out of the bridge is 2-3/4" wide by 3-1/8" High. The highest point of the bridge is 12-3/8" above the bottom of the base and the widest part of the bridge is 6-1/4" Wide. Stress points of the bridge are not only glued but also pinned. The concrete towers are made of wood and painted with Woodland Scenics Concrete Road System Top Coat Paint - The Brige itself is painted with American Accents Rustoleum Colonial Red Spray Paint. Care must be taken when installing the bridge not to bump or drop it. Once it is installed it will last forever. When you receive the bridge, if you do not like it for any reason, you may return it and get a full credit on the price paid. You will need to absorb the return postage and send it insured. When you purchase this bridge the shipping to you is free. One last note, I have never had a bridge damaged in shipping. Free Shipping to Continental US, other than to California which is $10.00 On the Hell Gate Bridge: Providing A Much Needed Railroad Connection: IN 1892, Oliver W. Barnes, an engineer associated with Pennsylvania Railroad president Alexander J. Cassatt and bridge designer Gustav Lindenthal, conceived plans for the Hell Gate Bridge. Cassatt saw the Hell Gate project - originally called the "East River Arch Bridge" - as an opportunity to bring rail traffic from Pennsylvania Railroad routes in New Jersey and points west through New York City to New England. The project was to also tie into the Long Island Rail Road routes, in which the Pennsylvania Railroad has a controlling interest. Meanwhile, Lintenthal saw the Hell Gate project as his chance to construct his Hudson River Bridge, a suspension bridge with a 2800-foot-long main span that would have been the longest in the world. That same year, the New York Connecting Railroad was incorporated to help realize this plan. In 190, Lindenthall, who oversaw the opening of the Williamsburg Bridge and the construction of the ongoing Manhattan Bridge and Queensboro Bridge projects, was chosen as consulting engineer and bridge architect by the Pennsylvania Railroad, which had just acquired the New York Connecting Railroad. Under these auspices, Lindenthal was engaged in a project to connect the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad in New Jersey, the long Island Rail Road in Queens, and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in the Bronx. Although the project allowed Lindenthal to design the Hell Gate span, it would not include his long-sought goal: a great suspension bridge across the Hudson River. Instead, the Pennsylvania Railroad decided to use exclusive tunnels for rail traffic across the Hudson and East rivers.The entire project was a 3.2 mile long railroad bridge from Astoria, Queens to the South Bronx. Highlighting this project was the Hell Gate span crossing the Hell Gate (roughly translated as "beautiful strait" in Dutch), a portion of the East River with treacherous currents separating Queens from Ward's Island, an island that was used for a large state mental hospital. The Steel-arch span, which measures 1,017 feet, six inches long, was the longest span of its type in the world when it opened. The four concrete towers that serve as portals to the arch bridge are 250 feet high. When it opened in 1916, the Hell Gate Bridge was the longest steel-arch bridge in the world. It held that title until the Bayonne Bridge open... read more

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