I would like to put a large trestle bridge on my layout like a 25" radius turn that is all one big trestle and I cant find one anywhere that is that large with that size radius of a curve. So i was wondering if anyone had any good ideas for build a trestle bridge that is that large.
Try these sites:
http://www.all-model-railroading.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=5590
http://robinrowland.com/wns/2007/01/building-tier-trestle-bridge.html Not exactly what you want, but close…
http://www.all-model-railroading.co.uk/amr/index.htm
Hope you find something! (and don’t forget to post photos![swg])
PM me where you want that.
http://members.cox.net/sn3nut/trestles%20part%201.htm
I used this site for my curved trestle. It’s there under the Allegheny in my avatar.
I bought Kalmbach’s bridge and trestle book, built a bent jig and scratch built mine. You have seen the pics. It was time consuming, but easy. I laid out the curve on tag board and built the trestle, upside down, right on the patern.
I want to build a small trestle over a creek I’m putting on my layout. Am looking for an old campbell kit to do the job.
I frequently see Campbell Trestle Kits on eBay. They often sell at a pretty good (low) price.
Will it be wood or plastic. Either on I really think one gets more enjoyment scrach building them. You may want to start with a smaller bridge first, but then reguardless of the size they are fun to build, check you LHS for a good bridge book, really helps.
If you decide to scrachbuild, may I suggest making only one long bent jig. make all your bents from it, this helps in making all bents uniform. If on a curve one can “Kant it” leaning into the curve, inside bent support more vertical. ME bridge track looks good with guard rails.
Most modelers do not model the inspection walk way under trestles ?
Post pictures and let us know if ya need any help, or PM me…John
I built one a few years ago. PM me if you’d like a step by step description of how I did it.
I made one that used a piece of 18" radius track as a support. I cut some square balsa rods to fit around the existing ties, then added wooden dowels for legs. I also had pieces of wood along the outsides of the bridge, that was bent to follow the radius. I added gaurdrails I made from scrap rail.
The painting hid the seem between the balsa ties and the wood ties. IMO, it looks alright, save for no stringers and the unrealistic bents. (I had no pictures to work with, so I built all from my head.) It’ll hold up to 10 pounds though.
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Were you thinking of a wooden trestle or a steel viaduct trestle? Reason I ask is that MicroScale puts out a steel viaduct in both N and HO scales, and though they take a lot of patience to build, the kit also comes with instructions on how to adapt them to curves. I built one out of two of the kits for my own MR (HO), on a 36" radius curve and it works really well.
Perhaps combining two of the Microscale N kits would give you the structure you’re looking for.
Tom
Hey Wolfgang,
Great website and trestle lesson. Nice work.
PM me what you pick.
Wolfgang-Is that a woman skinny dippin in the corner?[:-^]
I am working with N scale and want it to be wood. I also want it to be pretty tall like 4" or taller.