FRACTURED STONE SERIES

NOTICE

MY FRACTURED STONE SERIES CASTINGS ARE CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE.

2023 I AM MOVING MY SHOP. CHECK BACK THIS FALL.

I have created a full line of Fracture-Faced Stone retaining walls, bridge abutments, piers, culverts and castings sets based on constructions techniques developed by the legendary model builder and noted author Jack Work.

Individual fractured stone blocks are built up into interlocking key pieces that are molded and then cast and assembeled into walls. Those walls then become the raw stock components used to create abutments, piers, culverts or whatever else we require. The system is designed to support Micro Enginering, Central Valley or your own scratch-built bridge models.

INTERLOCKING FRACTURED STONE RETAINING WALLS

These sets of three interlocking stone walls mate together continuously. You can mate two, three or a dozen sets together for on continuous wall, as long as you require. Use them to built abutments, foundations, retaining walls.

Use them to fill in those awkward vertical spaces between tracks on your layout.

They are the same material I used to build the Baraboo River stonework set I described in the Dec. 1990 Mainline Modeler article co-authored by Lloyd Keyser and myself.

PRICE $12.95 per set.

Note that the Interlocking Fractured Stone panels require a little fitting before mating together. This only takes a moment, again, because Hydrocal is an easy material to work with you should have no problems. All you need is your hobby knife and maybe a file.

We also have it available in a rectangular sheet.

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FRACTURED STONE CULVERT with WING WALLS

These 14 ft. wide Stone Culverts are artfully rendered in my Fracture-Faced Sotne and come with 46 ft. long textured cast interior barrel liners. Set includes a pair of handsome arched culvert faces and stepped wing walls that can be angled out as desired.

FRACTURED STONE ABUTMENTS and PIERS

Using my Fracture-Faced Random Stone stock (FSW-i and FSW) I have created a variety of bridge abutments and piers to suit your needs. Use with Micro Engineering, Central Valley or scratch-build or cast-bash your own.

SINGLE-TRACK BRIDGE ABUTMENT

These simple single-track bridge abutments are designed to fit under Central Valley's Through Plate Girder Bridges. You can dress them up with optional wing walls. Or stack two of them together for a tall abutment.

SINGLE-TRACK BRIDGE PIER

These bridge piers match the abutments above. They are nicely tapered with a cut stone edge, steeper V-shaped facing the current, for multiple spans.

DOUBLE-TRACK BRIDGE ABUTMENTS

These matching double-track bridge abutments are 36 ft. wide. You can dress them with optional wing walls or stack two of them together for a tall abutment. They are the same height as the piers.

DOUBLE-TRACK BRIDGE PIER

These matching double-track bridge piers are also 36 ft. wide. They were originally built for the Baraboo River model and feature a nice taper with a cut stone edge. There are no finer bridge pier castings than this but note it is old and a little beat up.

LARGE BRIDGE ABUTMENTS

Here are the right abutments for under Central Valley's Pratt Bridge. Yes, you have finally found them. You can box them up with my Fractured Stone Retaining Wall stock (FSW) or add the optional wing walls.

STEPPED WING WALLS - SMALL

Dress up your bridge abutments with these matching fractured stone stepped wing walls. They can be trimmed and angled as you desire. Very cool!

STEPPED WING WALLS - MEDIUM

These stepped wing walls were originally built for the Baraboo River bridgework project. They can be used with the Central Valley Pratt Bridge abutment or you can cast-bash your own using my matching Fractured Stone stock.

STEPPED WING WALLS - LARGE

These larger stepped wing walls are about 4 inches tall by 8 inches long. They will mate up with the larger abutments or the Fractured Stone stock.

BARABOO RIVER STONEWORK SET

The Baraboo River Bridge was the subject of a construction article co-authored by Lloyd Keyser and myself in the Dec. 1990 issue of Mainline Modeler. Lloyd built the steel bridge and I helped him out by creating the double-track stonework. I now offer these castings as a set or individually as listed above. The Baraboo set includes two large winged abutments and two center piers carefully rendered in my Fracture-Faced Stone. You can either add a commercial bridge deck, kit-bash one or completely scratch-build one like lloyd did. He won best structure in the RPM in Pittsburg 1990 with his C&NW curved deck bridge modeled after the prototype in Rock Springs, Wisconsin.

SORRY- the molds for these are gone.
But you can assemble a similar set from the items above.

NOTICE

THE PRODUCTION OF MY FRACTURED STONE SERIES CASTINGS IS VERY LIMITED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

Due to the purchase of Builders In Scale and production of The Durango Roundhouse in O scale we must pull back on many of the offerings.
Please feel free to call or e-mail and I will see if I can come up with what you need. Sometimes I have them in stock, or can cast them GIVEN TIME. LOTS OF TIME.
Some items I cannot due to my schedule and/or the condition of the molds (old).

NO LARGE ORDERS PLEASE!

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