I have been to a few model shops in my area, South East in England, I dont know if it is me but I have not found a lot of knowledge from them about timber trestle making, I am trying to find the scale of the timber to make trestles in HO gauge. I want to know the size timber please in mm and are they made of the same size timbers etc. are they easy to make? thank you
I've used for my trestles the Kalmbach book "bridges & trestles". There're the sizes of the different timbers. I've got the timbers from NorthEastern.
Wolfgang
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Thanks Wolfgang, I have seen that book on amazon, I wil lhave to send for it
thanks
I found this site to be very helpful.
http://members.cox.net/sn3nut/trestles%20part%201.htm
I agree with Wedudler. I bought the Kalmbach book. I used two plans from it to get my trestle. I built the jig from the book. It took me a long time to assemble it but it was easy, just a lot of glueing one stick to another. I did build it upside down so the track bed was level. This was a real fun project for me.Two old pics.
thanks good site , I am on the right track, (sorry about pun)
links to scale timber as well
globalman
I down loaded a catalogue from Black bear construction and they have plans for all kinds of trestles , wood sizes, what trestle to use where, and also sell scale wood, and kits. There was no charge to down load the catalogue, and it's a wealth of trestle info, every thing you want to know for free.
the site is www.blackbearcc.com, I got it out of MRR, Rick