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Rene' I knew you would like the book. I keep my copy at work unless I need it here. I draw all my plans at work where my 4-yr old won't feel obligated to help. I've even built some things at work during lunch. I have been busy for a few days at work but I just started to draw the plan layout of a trestle for you. What a coincidence. I recommend you use the Micro Engineering trestle because it will be more economical and the rivet detail is hard to get in a scratch built structure. My problem is that I don't know what the spacing is between the girders on the MEI trestle. This dimension is necessary to draw accurate plans for you to kit-ba***he curved trestle. I can send you a drawing and a formula to use to make the adjustments necessary, OR you could buy the kit and build a tower span. Tower spans are not modified in this technique for curving a trestle so building the tower span will not cause any problems later. Then you could measure the spacing of the girders and let me know what it is. However, we may get lucky and someone reading this thread may have the kit and pass the dimension along to us anyway. I'll take a look at the stuff on p.72 tomorrow although I think I know what you are talking about. My two favorite bridges in the book have to be scratch built. I like the Scherzer (sp?) rolling lift bridge and the Glouchester Draw Bridge. The massive ones are impressive but I don't have the room to do a bridge like that justice. Until next time. - Ed
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