Railroad Curved Roof

The middle of the nineteenth century saw many large stations covered by iron steel and glass train sheds inspired by the crystal palace at the great exhibition in 1851.

Railroad curved roof.

Both the exterior and the interior of the roof are curved. Some mansard roofs may use curved roof sections more commonly on the lower. The construction of the entire model is of styrene so i m hoping to continue using that for the roof. Sandy lake pa 16145 p o.

Vertical seam panels unless hand formed or customer curved do not work real well on concave or convex surfaces. For many of these roofs the best metal option is often a small in size modular shingle style panel. The collection is made up of simple curved and straight bench and seat modules that can be joined to form limitless seating configurations. 376 7221 office hours mon day friday 8am 5pm fax 724.

Railroad is based on a simple series of inter changeable straight and curved modules which are designed to be joined to create seamless runs of continuous seating. Other structures have pitched roofs. I was thinking about cutting them out of 030 to 060 thick styrene and than gluing the bottom and top sheets over the ribs. Product quick view materials.

Box 515 phone 800. To make things even more complicated i m hoping to make the roof removable. The design is based around a standard module that comfortably accommodates 2 people with the start and end units also including small extension sections at one end. Most of the roof is steep but it always has a shallow or flat section higher up and like a hipped roof it has slopes in both the north south and east west directions.

Highway railroad expressed by e expressed as cross slope in percent e is inches of elevation difference between high rail outside and low rail inside function of vehicle speed curve radius and tire side friction 0 01e f 1 0 01ef v2 15r function of design speed degree of curve. This transfers down to 11 17 actual and the roof thickness needs to be around 100 thick. Curved roof panel radius curved. I need to make about 30 curved roof ribs for my snow dozers roof.

It has two or possibly three distinct roof pitches. A mansard roof is similar to a gambrel roof. My first idea was to 3d print a 1 scale section of the roof and cast copies. Railroad is the latest in adaptable modular seating with train tracks and model train sets as inspiration.

On a round roof standing seam panels can be used but they must be tapered.