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How To Build a Model Railroad Project plans: Build a railroad beam bridge

Project plans: Build a railroad beam bridge

By Angela Cotey | January 26, 2016

| Last updated on January 12, 2021

Download the scale drawings for this common model railroad structure

Beambridgeplans

Download plans for a railroad beam bridge.

Learn how modeler Jim Ferenc scratchbuilt this common railroad bridge for his HO scale Colorado & Southern Northern Division model train layout in the March 2016 Model Railroader. Jim used wooden ties and plastic girders on his bridge.

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