Gnome Miniature Engineering model railway bridges: Custom bridges

Custom and standard bridges for G scale, O scale, and garden railways

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Gnome Miniature Engineering is located in Ontario, Canada, in a place that we acknowledge to be the traditional land of the Six Nations of the Grand River.

GME MODEL RAILWAY BRIDGES are multi-scale working structures for small railways rather than scale models. They are hand built from laser cut, brake formed parts, assembled by traditional solid riveting.

Standard bridges are built from corrosion resistant materials for year round operation on garden railways. They are ready to use, painted or unpainted, except for the installation of the track. They have been used with track from 16.5mm gauge for 0n30 to 63.5mm for Gauge 3.

GARDEN RAILWAY BRIDGES: plate girders and underslung trusses for G and larger scales.

O and S SCALE BRIDGES: plate girders, through and underslung trusses, bascule bridges.

EDUCATIONAL MODEL TRUSSES: The truss bridges are available as educational models to demonstrate the principles and properties of trusses.

The model number (TR32 etc) indicates the type and length of the bridge deck in inches. For more information, please contact us at gme@gnomengineers.com

Updated on 1st January 2025

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21 May 2015

Custom bridges

A large proportion of our work has been to special requirements, such as this 1:8 scale steel static display bridge - a favourite project that went to Istanbul. It incorporated 7 1/4 inch gauge track parts from The Miniature Railway Supply Co.

The most economical approach to a custom design is to base it on standard parts. The picture below shows the first of many specials; this one for a large 0n30 railway, using mostly modified standard parts.

Masonry viaducts appearing to be curved are common, but there was rarely a horizontally curved steel bridge until the development of modern welded box girders. Most bridges that appear to be curved are a series of straight sections, and this is how we build a curved bridge. For a sharply curved bridge, the girders will be trapezoidal in plan, as in the example for an 0n30 railway shown here.