I had wanted a really impressive truss bridge to cross my canal but after buying a kit and trying to work it to fit I decided that it was just too darn long. If i shortened it to better fit the space it would look odd. So what to do? How about a simple girder bridge? That would work. Buy one or build one from scratch. I found some plans and it didn't look too hard. Had the materials on hand so why not. First step, the girders. Some .080 styrene. Then I cut 2x10 strips into 2" long pieces and glued them flat every 8 scale feet apart. Then glued the same size pieces on either side of the flat pieces.

After that had dried I used 4 x 12 pieces across the top and bottom to stiffen the girders.

I used the parts of the bridge deck from the truss bridge kit to make the deck for this bridge.

Time for painting and some weathering. And place it on the layout.