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I'm building some trestles for an N scale logging layout using birch twigs. I have some photos of trestles on some logging lines up here in the north that show them built with what appears to be unpeeled logs. <br /> <br />My lumbering experience is limited to cutting the firewood to heat our house & I know what standing, unpeeled dead trees look like after a couple of years of moisture & insects. Given that the expected useful life spans of some of the timber land was only a few years, would the trestles be built with a short life in mind? <br /> <br />Some of the low, long trestles were removed as fill was brought in to provide a more permanant road bed so it may seem like they might be built on the cheap. <br /> <br />Is peeling birch twigs a silly waste of time when there are logs to get off the mountain? <br /> <br />Wayne <br />
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