Märklin H0 modular Bridge Rail-C 172mm Straight Element (multi-part) / Märklin H0 modulare Brücke Gleis-C 172mm Element gerade (mehrteilig)

Motivation

When building a temporary model railway bridge or ramp, you need pillars with various sizes.
Using Lego for this purpose did not look too realistic.
For this reason I designed a pluggable model railway pillar system, that allows you to create any pillar height you need.

For a more realistic look of the bridge I designed a rail element for the straight Rail-C 172mm rails.
This design allows a two colour design of the support element.
By using a structured sheet metal for printing the cover parts, you get a very realistic looking top surface for the paved side parts.
The elements fit on top of the modular Bridge pillar system and can be connected with snap-in-connectors.

The design leaves enough tolerance for the changing slopes needed for the bridge ramps.

The Märklin Rail-C system is intended to be used with for use with our design.
 

Print

Printed with prusament PLA (Gentleman's Grey)
To build a complete ramp or bridge with ramps, you need quite a number of pillars and rail elements.
For one complete straight Rail-C 172mm support element (multi part) you need to print the following components:
  1x H0_Bruecke_gerade_172mm_Basis_v00.stl (base element)
     (print orientation: upright)
     (colour: Gentleman's Grey)
  2x H0_Bruecke_gerade_172mm_Abdeckung_v00.stl (Paveway left/right) 
     (print orientation: top face facing downwards, structured metal sheet)
     (colour: Grey)
  2x H0_Bruecke_Verbinder_v01.stl (snap-in-connector)
     (print orientation: left or right side)
     (colour: Gentleman's Grey) 

Assembly

[Straight Rail-C 172mm Support Element complete]
The straight Rail-C 172mm rail support base element is printed as one part.
Then you need to place the concrete paveway parts in the top side of the base element (left and right).
Simply place the paveway-parts (left+right) in their related positions on the base element and carefully push in the snap hooks.
(the paveway parts are identical and do fit into their related position in any orientation with hooks facing down)
This gives a nice impression of a steel construction with concrete slab paving.

The snap-in-connectors go into the small openings (left+right) at the ends of the rail support element.
The connected rail support elements fit on top of the pillar system.

The Märklin straight Rail-C element 172mm is simply placed in the center position.


Play & Enjoy!!!