Books or plans for HO scratchbuilt wood trestle

Model Railroader Layouts and layout building
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Hi,

Are there any good books or plans out there that would help guide me in building from scratch an all wood trestle? I’d like to build a two track all wood trestle, in the neighborhood of 50 inches long - 400 scale feet. Have not decided yet if I want to make it curved or not.

Also, I’m thinking I would like to model a trestle in West Virginia through the mountains, in the 1940-1960 period, if any wood trestles existed in that state at that time. Any suggestions as to which one to model if there was one?

Thanks.

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Check out the trestle jigs at blackbearcc.com. That should give you some good ideas. No, I am not affiliated with them at all, nor have I ordered anything from them yet.

Hope this helps

Charlie

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Kalmbach published Model Railroad Bridges & Trestles in 1992 (reprints of old MR articles) and it was still in print in the early 2000s and is seen at swap meets. It has plans for a timber trestle and a timber deck truss bridge Paul Mallery’s classic Bridge & Trestle Handbook was first released in 1958 but has been updated since then and I think Carstens still offers it. It has drawings but more importantly the kind of technical information that you need to understand a plan Dave Nelson

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Thanks both comments were very helpful.