Looking at adding a small coal unloading tressle and was wondering if anyone made pre built pilings or if I was better off bashing a bridge kit
Put the Modeling back into Model Railroading and just build them yourself. Draw the bents up full size on paper then just build it. Use strip wood you can get from a hobby shop or craft shop. Stain the wood pieces before gluing them together.
Hi,
Check out December’s MR page 42 and scale down and as above have a go yourself. Me I’d scrub up some plastic rod and use that, I did a timber trestle out of wood way back, even using AC it was real delicate and the plastic I built a few years back using Plastic Weld MC look great. Go for it, it’s fun yu know and a lot easier than it looks
Be in touch.
pick
This is certainly something that can be built from scratch. But if you’d like to have a bit of a head start, the Bar Mills “Low Boy” N scale trestle kit might be a good basis. That’s the link to the Walthers site, you can find the kit at a lower price from retailers.
If you want some info on Scratch Building a small trestle like structure, go to www.westportterminal.de This is the late Wolfgang Dudler’s website and it has a lot of his projects and one of them is for a curved trestle. Just scroll down the page and on the right hand side you will see, “scratch building a curved trestle”. Just click the link and you should be able to adapt it to what you require.
EDIT. At the bottom of the curved trestle link, there is another link to another trestle build. It is written in German, but the pictures make the instructions very clear. B.F.
All the best,
Blue Flamer.