Using LGB bridge piers

[playmofire]

This may seem a question with an obvious answer, but I'd like to be sure that what I'm doing is right before I do it and possible find it's wrong!

I'm planning to put a short incline up to a bridge and then down again in a layout I'm working on. I'm using LGB 50614 track mounts, LGB 50612 single layer bridge piers and LGB 50611 bridge mounts. The bridge piers have four small "pins" on the bottom, one on each corner and these are presumably to lock into another bridge pier where one or more piers are on of top of another. However, this leaves the question of the bottom pier - presumably, the "pins" are carefully cut off so that the pier lies flush on the baseboard.

Confirmation or otherwise would be gratefully received.

 

[minimans]

I have box's of those things! I have seen a top section that locks into a sleeper and a bridge abutment piece but have never seen a base piece? perhaps you could make one from a piece of ply and transfer the "pins" to it and drill holes?

 

[playmofire]

I wondered about that, but it seems an odd way of going about things. The only guidance I've found on the web from onlytrains.com says nothing about the pins and the sketches seem to suggest that the base piece is "pinless".

 

[PhilP]

Pretty certain I saw a set of 'bits' in an old catalogue..
There was a base section, a couple of differing thickness pier sections, and a 'top' which locked into the sleepers.

Memory is vague, so it may not have been LGB..

 

[playmofire]

There are three types of pieces, a sleeper "lock" piece which has four pins on the underside and which is used as the first element in any incline and thereafter as the final element on each set of piers, a 15mm pier which has four pins on the underside and which is used as the first pier and thereafter as appropriate, and a 45mm pier, again with four pins on the underside.