Looking for a General Contractor

D

d55baron

New member
I am looking for a General Contractor specializing in bridges. I need a bridge that is 2 tracks wide, has a center swing point and has an upper deck over the tracks for two lanes of automobile traffic. If you can build this bridge, I would very much like to chat with you via PM, email, whatever form of communications we mutually have.

Please contact of you can do.
 
d55baron said:
I am looking for a General Contractor specializing in bridges.
Click to expand...

I don't want to cross THAT bridge. You don't need a GC, you need a civil engineer. Like John said, Ben's that engineer. He's built two bridges for me. He's a stickler for the details. He'll give you EXACTLY what you're looking for.
 
Hi d55baron:

All it takes is pics and basic dimensions.

Photos of the overall bridge, closer photos of the individual spans (if different), support piers, and ends. All from as close to directly from the side as possible. Overall length, length of the individual spans, height, width (not critical as thats usually determined by track spacing), height above the water, etc.

BTW - I'm not an enginerer (I just like making bridges, lol).

I actually made a bridge too far, lol. The Tay River Bridge is so long (15,280 ft) TRS2004 has difficulty rendering one end. It dissappears from view from one direction but not the other. Took me a while to figure out why but its due to that end of the bridge being so far from its axis origin. The other end has a curve so isn't as far away and remains in view all the time.

Ben
 
Last edited:
Only got 2 usefull photos even tho there are a lot there. None show the entire bridge so I don't know how many spans there are.

As for data - almost nothing useable. One datum said 400 ft overall but that looks very suspicious. Thats more likely the length of the swing span. I also know it was built in 1911 and the bottom of the span in 14 ft 8 in above the water but thats all. I need a heck of a lot more info then that (what I mentioned in my earlier post).

As for making it for you - tis what I like to do - make stuff for others. I almost never run Trainz to run a train.

BTW - videos (nice as they might be) don't really do me any good.

Oops - almost forgot. Since this is a combination road and rail bridge I would make it normally closed and open at the approach of a boat in the water that has been setup as a loco running on invisible track in the water. This will automatically (or is supposed to, lol) stop the automotive traffic but would not automatically stop the train traffic. There is a way to do that but I don't know the details. When the time comes ask on Forum.

Ben
 
Last edited:
Ben - I noticed some new center swing bridges appeared in the DLC. One has my interest. It is titled "Swing Bridge 27" in dlc. i would like to ask for two modifications to that particular bridge, 1) square off the ends of the swing portion and 2) put a 2 lane road on top of it. With these two modification, you will have given me the bridge I need to span the Sacramento River.

Also one question, when I connect the track to the end of the bridge, are they supposed to completely span the river even when the bridge is open to pass river traffic, or am i missing something.

T.I.A.
d55baron
 
Printed out the pic and info.

As for swing bridge 27 if its not mine theres nothing I can do. If it is whats the kuid?

All interactive bridges are done as mocrossings to take advantage of code built into Trainz to operate them without having to write a script file. The ties and rails you see are not real - just parts made in Gmax to look like track. Trains actually cross on invisible track. If I used a real track kuid it would not rotate when the bridge opened or closed and would look darn dumb, lol. Bottom line = the track you attach should NOT span the bridge. I set useadjoiningtracktype to 0 in the config file to prevent that from happening.

Ben
 
Last edited:
"This will automatically (or is supposed to, lol) stop the automotive traffic but would not automatically stop the train traffic. There is a way to do that but I don't know the details. When the time comes ask on Forum."

Route;

Chicago Metro 3,<kuid:522774:100015>

Session;

Chicago Metro 3 sparks 10,<kuid:522774:100012>

Trigger Multiple Signals is used to stop the trains, the invisible track on the river is a single track with reversing loops at both ends, the steamship just gets the autopilot command to cruise up and down. But the auto traffic on the lower deck doesn't stop when the bridge opens.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7tfqD6aogc

Note at 0:40 car driving across. Works for signals though.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCdqK-4R1Mk
 
Took a peek at it. Nope far too different. Easier to make a new (and correct) version then to try and kludge up something from it.

Almost forgot. How do the road and rails diverge at the ends? usually the rails go straight and the road curves since the road can curve at a much sharper radius then the tracks but not always. Which tis it please?

Ben

Ben
 
rails go straight, the road sits on supports that straddle the rails for a short distance as it turns to enter and leave the bridge.
 
Does road turn to the left or the right?

Does the road stay on the same side of the rails at both ends after diverging?

Have the center span made and almost thru with the wing span.

I've set it up width-wise for one of Maddy25's roads. The road and rails on the bridge will not be real. Just parts that look like road and track. Cars and trains will actually cross on invisible road and track as road and track splines can not be made to rotate with the center span. You will have to add the invisible track on the lower level yourself. This is normal. If I added it a real train would also cause the bridge to open in addition to a boat that has been setup as a loco running on invisible track in the water.

Ben
 
Roadway extends to the end of the wing spans

road approaches the eastern wing span on an angle from the left side of bridge
road approaches the western wing span on a curve from the right side of the bridge

may be of some help: Goggle Maps coords:

n38.5884 on the top, n38.5812 on the bottom
w121.511 on the left, w121.504 on the right
eye alt at 765M

should see it all from there
 
Does the road makes an "S" curve or a reverse "S" curve (cuz I don't know which end is east or west)?

Past experience tells me if I guess I will almost certainly guess wrong, lol.

Almost fporgot - does it have a ramp on each end so the road can get back to ground level or does the ground rise up to meet the road?

Ben
 
Last edited:
bendorsey said:
Does road turn to the left or the right?

Does the road stay on the same side of the rails at both ends after diverging?

Have the center span made and almost thru with the wing span.

I've set it up width-wise for one of Maddy25's roads. The road and rails on the bridge will not be real. Just parts that look like road and track. Cars and trains will actually cross on invisible road and track as road and track splines can not be made to rotate with the center span. You will have to add the invisible track on the lower level yourself. This is normal. If I added it a real train would also cause the bridge to open in addition to a boat that has been setup as a loco running on invisible track in the water.

Ben
Click to expand...

in the case of the real life bridge, the roadway extends from one wing across the center span to the end of the other wing. the road curves to the right when looking west from the center of span and goes of at about a 30 degree angle to the right when looking east from the center span. For ease of construction on your part, i suspect that if the road surface went to the ends of the wings, that would be sufficient as I can get the rest of the road to that point.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

M
Looking for a 66 ft straddle crane
Replies
0
Views
334
mapsgame
M
R
Major Islands Network DLC for TRS22
2
Replies
26
Views
3K
johnnydeluxe2g
J
F
Modellers
Replies
2
Views
871
Fierogt87
F
S
Problems with a map and sessions, meant for Tane (build version 4.5)
Replies
7
Views
368
JCitron
J
T
Looking for a well made UP, SP, or SF route on the DLS. Suggestions?
Replies
1
Views
714
grazlash
G
Back
Top