The sides of the bridge are made out of steel sections bolted or welded together. To model that I used Evergreen angle strip styrene. The smallest I had was item no. 291, which has 0.060" angles. I used both Testors Plastic Cement and Super Glue to glue these strips to the MDF sides of the bridge.



I cut the strips of angle styrene to fit the shape of the bridge's sides and glued them down. It was a simple scratchbuilding project that took a couple of relaxing hours for each side.





I painted the MDF and the angle strips with Polly Scale's "Flat Alumininum". Later I will apply some weathering to the "panels".



Then came the bridge's walkway. I glued some scale 3" by 10" boards cut to 20-foot lengths on the extended ties. After that I applied alcohol and India Ink solution to stain and weather the boards. I followed that with some dry-brushing of black and gray paints.



A close-up of the 12-foot long boards that were used to support the control cab.



I want my layout to appear as realistic as possible, so my operational turntable has to have a railroad employee in it to operate the table. I needed to glue him in place first.



Then I could glue the control cab over him. His right arm stretches over the control panel in the cab, so I had to wiggle the cab a bit to get it to fit. By the way, both parts were glued to the wooden base with super glue. I had originally glued the door to the control cab closed when I built the structure. However, I decided to snap it out and glue it in the open position. That way it looks like the employee just walked into the control cab to do some moves on the turntable. Also, when you look closely, you can look into the door and see the little guy.



If you look closely, you can see the employee's back in this extremely close-up photo.



The next step is to install the guardrails on the bridge. They will be made from 0.019" brass wire by Detail Associates. I used a #75 drill bit to drill the holes in the bridge.



I drilled holes in each of the wooden support beams that stick out from under the walkway.



I cut a scale 4-foot section of the brass wire for the vertical support posts. I filed the top of the "posts" so that they are nice and smooth. After inserting the piece in the drilled hole, I placed a drop of superglue to permanently mount the posts.



In the next photo one side of the vertical posts is in. They aren't perfectly straight. First, that is hard to do, and second, I like mine to lean a little to indicate decades of use.



The horizontal handrail is now being glued in place. A metal weight was used to press the piece to the vertical posts. I just glued them one at a time. It went pretty smoothly.



I completed the other side, and then painted them a yellow. This completes all the details I planned to add to the turntable at this time.