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
thanks good site , I am on the right track, (sorry about pun)
links to scale timber as well
globalman
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.
I found this site to be very helpful.
http://members.cox.net/sn3nut/trestles%20part%201.htm
Thanks Wolfgang, I have seen that book on amazon, I wil lhave to send for it
thanks
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
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
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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