scratchbuilding a trestle article

OGR by Jim B.: August, 2001.  it has the pattern to copy.

- walt

I read it and used it as a guide...sorry about the 90 degree thing...

for some reason I can rotate the picture and save and it is still rotated when I post...

Here is a link to Bob Bartizek's website, (Pennsylvania & Western Railroad). Select Photos left column. Click on Building Summit Trestle added 02/03/10  Very nice pictoral.

From Bob's website.

Thank you Walt, J, and Mike, this is the information I was looking for.

Looks good Mike!

Hal,

OGR Magazine Run 256 (April/May 2012) has a 9-page article I wrote on a trestle bridge I built from scratch. The article is rather detailed and should be of help. The bridge is 10-feet long, 26 inches over the lake and its entire span has a 2% grade. The curves at both ends are 108 and 99-inch diameter.

 (click on picture for proper perspective)

Good luck and keep us posted with your progress.

Alex

I'm glad that you mentioned your article Alex.  I either forgot to read that issue or somehow missed it - but missing it doesn't sound possible!  I'll have to revisit that issue - or 'visit'.

walt

Hey Walt,

I suspect that there are many of us who routinely miss forum threads and magazine articles that we would have liked to have read. When I receive OGR magazine, I browse through the entire issue after dinner that same day, and then set it aside to read each and every article. But, between interruptions and working on the layout, I sometimes skip or fail to finish reading an article.

When the next OGR issue arrives and I am ready to file the previous issue, I look at it (the older issue) one more time, and invariably discover an article I had missed. Sometimes I read the missed article then, but other times I am so interested in what the new issue may have, that I just file the older issue without further ado.

Thx!

Alex