Trestle building with pics!!!

See It’s easy!! Is this the Way to extent you’re trestle? The Bents sure are Heavy!! Sean

HI SEAN,

I HAVE THE SAME USA CRANE AND I’M GLAD TO SEE SOMEONE PUTTING IT TO USE. I STAGED A TRAIN WRECK AND HAD IT ATTEMPTING TO LIFT A CAR BACK ONTO THE TRACKS. TRESTLE LOOKS PRETTY GOOD!!! THANKS FOR THE PICS.

JOHN

Sean: Looking good my friend. Just one question. Why does the bent being installed look five years older than the bents that the crane is sitting on top of?

You better make sure the LPB crew has plenty of cold beer when they’re done or they’ll be wantin a raise.

NAH… that’s only a seasons weather’in on that bent there…early winter must’a set in last year, they had ta pull out FAST an leave it a lay’en in the snow an ice till spring thaw, an they could get back to the job there again this season…Right,Sean

Byron

Actually Them Northerners do not waist anything! If it’s not broke don’t fix it! Will not take long for the new bents to look that way! Sean

Dang’d Yankees…they’ll use anything they can…Right…I know

I’s originally from Akron,O.

I have a 11 car work train (no rotory plow ) and no place to put it…except back in the boxies and now I don’t need it.

Taking offers via E-Mail

Dave

Howdy Sean, our GR also has the same type USA Trains crane and used it to construct concrete culverts (see June 2009 GR).

When the UP did the big dig lowering their mainline through they built a temporary bypass track. A couple of years later when the new depressed tracks were finished the bypass track was cutup into track panels and stored at the Reno Yard. Over time the panel tracks have been being recycled. Could that what happened with your trestle bents?

Nice work, Rob

Well it’s done as far as I’m going to go for now. I’ll be making a covered bridge were you see the plank between the granite and trestle. here are the pics. Sean