Timber Trestles Still in Use

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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I’m in the process of adding a timber trestle to my N Scale layout and that starts me wondering how many are still in use on real railroads. I would imagine these are becoming increasingly rare. Are there a lot of timber trestles still in use today?

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Here in the upper Great Plaines they are common, especially on branch and light density lines.

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There’s one in Keewatin MN that has one or more loaded taconite pellet trains a day over it. Several more timber approaches on the ex GN lines.

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Over on trainboy’s “Epic Cabride Video” thread, you can see up close a timber trestle carrying a highway over the CP line. Unfortunately, I forget how far into the trip it is.

Bruce

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UPRR Western Colorado North Fork Branch

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You can find some timber trestles here: http://www.aslrra.org/45gsuccess.pdf.

Some have been replaced. Others have been redone with timber.