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Home Creek and Cedar Creek Module Frames

Home Creek and Cedar Creek Module Frames

Before moving away from Zimmerman and taking a break from Free-mo, I had built a couple of drop deck module frames mostly from some left over material. These only got to the basic framing and then have sat in storage for almost 3 years. A conversation today with John Z. from Minnesota made me hankering to get them out of the shed and see if they can be used for the Homer Creek and Cedar Creek modules. They were a little dirty from storage and had a bit of mildew on them, but they are cleaning up nicely. Since these were constructed entirely from Baltic Birch plywood which even 3 years ago was quite expensive, I really want to make use of them.

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Homer Creek Bridge Construction

Homer Creek Bridge Construction

Lamoille, MN. - The Walther's bridge kits arrived this morning so I wasted very little time beginning on this project. This is a unique bridge in that it has a low middle girder rather than a standard height girder between the tracks. I cut down the center girder provided in the kit and modified the rest of the parts to fit this new smaller girder.
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