For those who would like to attempt to build a trestle on their railroad it might be if interest to down load the FREE plan/template provided by Garden Railways.
I just laid track over my trestle too. I have plans for adding guard rails, but I am not planning on making bridge ties.
Even with the prototype pictures of low trestles not having the X bracing, it still doesn’t look right to me. This is my personal opinion, your mileage may vary.
Alan, was your link intended to point to the plans?
Where on the site are they?
Greg
Its another link you have to copy and paste.
The online article
The PDF file
I used plans in the Kalmback book, “HO Bridges you can build”. I just scaled up the plans.
Thank you David for sorting this out. Your second link works - for me - and is the one I believed I had posted. I could not get a workable link direct to the plans Greg, sorry about that.
I think they have two sets of plans for trestles.
The earlier one is a straight one?..this latest is the curved…
I picked up a very good Kalmbach book on Trestles and Bridges.
Some works of art in that I can tell you!!.
Ross one of the differences in a curved trestle and a straight one is the bents are made a bit differently. The inside pile on a bent for a curved trestle is more vertical, and the outside pile had more lean to it, then would be the case for straight trestle.
I like the look of trestles, all that bracing and such gives a lot of visual interest.
Sully wants a long curved trestle on the south end where there’s a 1% grade down to the ground, which is rising to meet it.
I figure on building roadbed using the “Ladder Method,” then adding decorative bents.
When I had a long curved trestle I did a spline for the ‘stringers’ Then turned it over and built upside down adding bents and braces. The spline was a tad taller than the stringers would be, but under the track you couldn’t tell.
Made a very strong structure. I later cut sections out for use when the layout changed.
John