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Posted by Track fiddler on Sunday, May 3, 2020 11:44 AM

Great looking bridges guys. Not only the prototypical photos but the models look awesome.

 

 

TF

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Sunday, May 3, 2020 10:14 AM

That is a great picture.

An S-Curved Trestle... there must have been a unique need for such a thing.

This is the largest trestle I ever built, in N Scale on the Scale Rails Of Southwest Florida portable layout.

-Kevin

Living the dream.

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Great Picture
Posted by RR_Mel on Sunday, May 3, 2020 10:01 AM

Great Picture
 
My daughter sent this picture of the Alamogordo and Sacramento Railroad this morning, it must have been taken in the early 1900s.  It is the Bailey Canyon S Curve Trestle (long gone).
 
 
I grew up in El Paso TX and traveled to the New Mexico Sacramento Mountains quite often.  I later moved just west of Cloudcroft in Alamogordo NM.  My layout is based on the Cloudcroft/Sacramento Mountains.
 
The only trestle left, Mexican Canyon Trestle, was restored by the USDA in 2010.
 
 
Before Restoration
 
 
 
After Restoration
 
I just thought I would pass along some pictures from my past that is part of my model railroading.  When I designed my layout it was a must to have a timber bridge and trestle.
 
 
My Layout
 
It’s not a logging locomotive but that is my trestle.
 
 
 
Mel
 
 
 
My Model Railroad   
 
Bakersfield, California
 
I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.
 

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