N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout

[davefoxx]

I hear you, but he really needs to consider another alternative than what's posted above.  Even Ed's Law is not going to come up with much to reconcile his mock-up.

If necessary, cut the double track portal in half and widen it.  Build a new keystone to hide the cut and paint everything inside the tunnel black, except the track, to camouflage the gaping tunnel bore.

DFF

[Dave V]

I hear you, but he really needs to consider another alternative than what's posted above.  Even Ed's Law is not going to come up with much to reconcile his mock-up.

If necessary, cut the double track portal in half and widen it.  Build a new keystone to hide the cut and paint everything inside the tunnel black to camouflage the gaping tunnel bore.

DFF

I hear you too...  But I think we have some cognitive dissonance, as Lee's entire modeling philosophy and style now is radically different from what it was on the WM.  Realism is taking a back seat to nostalgia, and if this were me solving this problem as a train-crazy kid and not as a prototype-modeling adult, I'd also probably come up with a radically different (and far less realistic) solution.   

Of course my childhood was HO scale so I'd probably be using cardboard from a Tyco box in there somewhere!   

[wazzou]

Well then, there is nothing more nostalgic than one of those Life Like 8" long white mountains with a big tunnel bore.   
I think Lee can pull this off but I agree it seems more urban than rural, so that's the way I'd try to play it off.

[davefoxx]

Realism is taking a back seat to nostalgia.

That's why I suggested the double track portal, which I avoid like the plague, because they usually look horrible and display the unfinished interior of the tunnel.  But it would fit the theme of a retro layout, as it is an option that many modelers back in the day would have chosen.  Hell, they'd go triple bore without hesitation!

Of course my childhood was HO scale so I'd probably be using cardboard from a Tyco box in there somewhere!   

Haha!  Your modeling has always been light years ahead of mine, and you don't even want to know about my modeling skills when I was a child.  Awful is putting it mildly.

DFF

[Dave V]

Haha!  Your modeling has always been light years ahead of mine, and you don't even want to know about my modeling skills when I was a child.  Awful is putting it mildly.

DFF

Nah, man, my work as a kid was simply cringe-worthy.  Like...SHAME.  But we had a sh!tload of fun anyway, didn't we?

[DKS]

But... Wait. Lee, if that nail clears, then you have room for posts (more nails ought to work fine) for the beam bridge... no?

[Philip H]

But... Wait. Lee, if that nail clears, then you have room for posts (more nails ought to work fine) for the beam bridge... no?

@DKS speaks much turth.

[davefoxx]

@DKS speaks much turth.

The turth will set you free. 

[Dave V]

It would work if the row of posts follows the curve of the centerline between the two tracks.  As depicted, it'll still cause fouling of the outer track at the ends and the inner track in the center.

[Chris333]

[CRL]

How about a 3 track concrete portal, set at an angle, and recessed behind the concrete sidewalk bridge railing. This would suggest the existence of supporting beams behind the portal.

[wm3798]

At last.  Someone understands my project!

[CRL]

How about a 3 track concrete portal, set at an angle, and recessed behind the concrete sidewalk bridge railing. This would suggest the existence of supporting beams behind the portal.

Here’s a railroad bridge over a multi-lane highway that would work visually.

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[Dave V]

Why not just go balls-deep?

[CRL]

That’s the spirit!