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jacon12, <br /> <br />Those are some nice wood trestles. They are better than anything I have done to date. But, I have another quick and dirty trestle idea for you that I plan to incorporate on my own layout. Micro Engineering sells a 4 pack of (HO Scale) 50 ft plate girders; each about 6.875" long. Buy a 1x4 piece of wood and some of these girders. Rip the 1x4 to about 3/4 inch wide. Cut to length (an even increment of the 50 plate girders). Paint the ripped 1x4 dark grey to black. Attach the bottom flange cover plates to the girders. Paint the girders silver/aluminum color. Glue the girders to the side(s) of the ripped 1x4. Now buy one or more pieces of Bridge Flex Track also sold by Micro Engineering. Place the bridge flex track over your girders, and add the guardrails and refuges, etc. Place the trestle superstructure (everything you just built) on the layout. Build piers under the bridge using whatever sort of piers suit you, but remember one pier must rest at the end of each span. You may make timber pile bents or modern concrete piers or anything in-between. You can build a lot of steel trestle very quickly this way. If you use timber pile bents, or want the trestle to appear old, then weather the girders with a highly thinned mixture of Testors "Rust" color and washes of india ink. Micro Engineering also sells 4-packs of bridge bearings (they call them bridge shoes I think), which are what we refer to in the industry as High Profile Bearings. I add these to each end of the girder spans I build. I can not over emphasize the benefit of using Bridge Track on a bridge model of this sort. This is the thing you will see the most when you view the model. <br /> <br />Good Luck. - Ed
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