Added two more parallel girders which will frame the railway track. Used matchstick wood for sleeper supports.

Used card for making bridge sleepers. Then painted them a freshly cut timber colour.

Strips were cut from a thin polystyrene sheet for rail tracks. While gluing the track in place, I used a small block of wood to keep tracks equally spaced. Then used a mix of matt brown and grey for the tracks. Later, added silver to the paint, and wiped that across the top surface.

Thanks David.

A bit of iron, to the all wood construction, does make it stand out somewhat. Embedding the railway track into the deck, like it ought to be, will be a mark improvement to previous models I've seen so far.

To be honest, I am always surprised how well it's coming together. I am sure an invisible helping hand is behind it all. Unless it's 'Minder' doing night shift and fixing up my construction hiccups. 🙂

SAW PIT or just a wee BIT SAW

The Thai-Burma, 415 kilometre, railway was constructed in parallel (?) That is, they had camps along the whole distance, each doing their own section. I am sure that certain materials, such as train tracks had to be railed in from one or either end. However, I am not sure about the sleepers. I am thinking that most were railed in too. Others may have been cut in situ.

Since the POWs were using primitive tools, and were using cut timber in many cases, I was wondering how they done this. I've been searching for saw pits, and such, to no avail. The closest thing to this is seen in a previous posted image...

...where it seems they used the bridge piers as a trestle for sawing lumber. But I don't see any saws.

I was hoping to use a saw pit in the diorama, but cannot do so if I have no proof of them using one.

Yep, you need to give that man a raise!

@tecko

Since I cannot access, locally, single layer veneer sheets, I had to resort to plastic sheets. From the railway tracks to outer bridge edges are two layers of boards. The bottom layer is thick, while the top layer is thin (in comparison) boards for vehicles and walkway. Attached to the base layer are the hand-rail posts.

Thanks David for your kind and thoughtful comments. I appreciate them more than you realize.