Currently constructing a trestle following prototype drawings (SP Common Standard) and employing a home-made jig to construct the bents:
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mcfunkeymonkey If you'll be building a lot of bents, then make a simple jig out of a piece of masonite and some scrap wood:
If you'll be building a lot of bents, then make a simple jig out of a piece of masonite and some scrap wood:
I find it useful, when building wooden trestle bents, to make my jig out of styrene. Likewise, I would make a wooden jig when fabricating steel bents from structural styrene parts. That way, I can apply glue without worrying about my finished part sticking to the jig.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Here are scale drawings with dimensions.
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Just a couple of pointers (the voice of experience!): for a 'quick' build, try just printing out a bunch of sheets of the template, & glue the outer upright supports to the paper. Then add the other pieces on top. When you're done & it's dry, you can just peel/scrape the template sheet off the bottom uprights.
If you want to try bamboo skewers, remember that they're coated with wax and will need to be sanded & primed before use. Also, weather as you go - it will be pretty impossible to get in there after! I'm probably going to use scale modelling wood for my next one, after I scratchbuild a cantilever signal tower...
Thanks bigpianoguy for the website. I think I'll try that.
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Try this link; I used their trestle template & bamboo skewers & made some amazing things.
http://www.all-model-railroading.co.uk/amr/chapter10.htm
Made a couple of trestles using bamboo skewers, turned out great, first thing and necessary is a jig to assemble and glue. There were plans in MR but can't remember what issue, I'm sure someone out there has the plans or can tell where to find them. they are actually very easy to make and fun. will try and find the plans.
Not a website but published plans
An d for a website with probably HUNDREDS of scale drawings and photos of REAL trestles,
Library of Congress online. www.loc.gov then click "American Memory" Then select Architecture/Landscape... opens 9 collections. Then select "Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey, 1933-Present" 1933 refers to when they started measuring, drawing scale drawings and photographing buildings and works of engineering. Once in collection, enter your search. I tried "coke oven" and got 109 items. The ones labelled "Built in America" usually include scale drawings, multiple photographs from different angles and explanatory text for each identified building or complex.
Library of Congress online.
www.loc.gov
then click "American Memory"
Then select Architecture/Landscape... opens 9 collections.
Then select "Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey, 1933-Present"
1933 refers to when they started measuring, drawing scale drawings and photographing buildings and works of engineering.
Once in collection, enter your search.
I tried "coke oven" and got 109 items. The ones labelled "Built in America" usually include scale drawings, multiple photographs from different angles and explanatory text for each identified building or complex.
Thanks. I want to build the bents but since this is my first time scratchbuilding something, I would like the scale plans for the bents.
Black Bear Construction is a good place to start, either for their kits or for using the drawings as templates.
If you have a photo of the bridge you want to emulate, then you can just work off that: draw a template yourself on paper, put wax paper over it, then build on top.
That's N scale, but you get the idea.
Hope this helps.
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I'm wondering if anyone knows of a website that has plans for HO scale wooden trestles. I'm thinking of scratchbuilding one with some scale lumber I have. They would need to be for a standard gauge bridge in my case.