These are rough locations of the infamous Fenway Park poles, along with their equally infamous sightline obstructions. I'm using photos of Fenway combined with the excellent Fenway Pole Finder book to determine exactly where you're getting screwed when you buy a ticket.
Once this is finalized, I try to make sense of the roof truss placement, and then the even more tedious job of building the horizontal and diagonal connections between the truss. We've firmly entered "this isn't fun" territory, but I'd hate to end up with a recreation of Fenway that can't even get the obstructions correct.
The marginally confounding issue with the truss placement deals with the roof being so heavily changed over the years. In the 80s when the roof boxes / press box / everything else were modified, virtually everything in front of the posts was rebuilt. And so we went from:
(thank you Ballparks, Stadiums and Arenas)
to:
So, they lopped everything off and dramatically shortened the roof in front of the post, so the people in the upper deck would have a chance to see anything within 50' of the stands all the way around. The renovation did have the added benefit of making Fenway look far less like an ancient double-A park, as you can see in any old photos of the roofline.
The best indicator of the difference in roof pitch is down the RF corner, where they never bothered to modify the roofline (at least, not since '34):
It was a pretty dramatic difference. So, when it comes time to move onto the current-day model of Fenway, there will be a fair bit of rebuilding to do. Until then, 1934 continues.
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