Nice and sturdy

A nice sturdy trestle, Charlie. Trestles are great fun to build and your step by step approach makes it easy for any modeller to make one. Well done.

Roy

Installing a framed wood trestle - Part 1

I enjoyed this article and it has encouraged me to install a trestle that I've been thinking about for some time.  This was just the push I needed.  Thanks

Norman (engineman1) Guinard

Great article

Charlie, thanks for the great article I love bridges and look forward to part II.

John Pestana 

Well writen article

Thanks for a well written article, concise, detailed, readable.

Trestle article

Charlie

Kudos on the article. I've always wondered about the techniques for getting the trestle to match the terrain. Other articles about this subject seem to gloss over this very important aspect. I also appreciate the candor in going "back and forth" for fitting. I think this lack of candor in construction artilcle causes a great deal of frustration for someone trying this for the first time. i know it did it for me when I first started out in this hobby as a teenager (back in the Jurassic period).

I marvel at your ability to keep the article succinct but with the proper amount of detail. I hope your "promotion" doesnt cut back on your articles.

Great Job

Vetadmiral (Dave Hunt)

Good Ideas

Makes it look so easy. Lots of good ideas for simplfying this type of installation. I remember once upon a time installing a similar type trestle........didn't go nearly as well. Looking forward to the second installment.

Nice article but..

Nice article but including a PDF of the plans for the bents used to make the jig would have taken it to the next level.

Chris

Nice article but including a

hadn't even thought of it - but Chris makes an excellent point.

I wonder...

I wonder if the plans for the bents were from one of the fine books on building bridges and trestles?  If so, the pdf would be a copyright violation, no?

Source

The article mentions the Mallery's "Bridge and Trestle Handbook," which is a nice reference to have.

There you go...

It's a great reference.  I picked up a copy of the Fourth Edition of Paul's book off of eBay dring my last MRR spending spree.  The book is also available right from Carstens.

Bridge & Trestle Handbook

Rights

I don't want to speak for Chris, but the way I understood his post (and why I replied) is this is an example of a really good article that could be better - in this case by the inclusion of bent plans that readers could download and work from.

I don't know the rights involved in this specific situation, nor is that relevent  - the inclusion of drawings like this (much like the way MR used to include scalable drawings for hobbyist use) seems like a natural for this medium, and we'd like to see more of it.

Before folks reply, I'm fully aware of the time and skills needed to create valuable drawings like that, or to secure the rights where needed, but even that doesn't change the fact that it would be damn cool! 

3rd Planit

Charlie mentions developing the drawing in 3rd Planit utilizing his chosen lumber sizes so I thought it would be something that could be exported to a PDF and provided.

For many of us, we would want to make our own drawing to suit the prototype or the lumber we have on hand. Still, I see a place for having something "ready to go" for those less concerned with that and just wanting to move forward developing a similar scene.

While using the specific drawing out of a book may be a copyright issue, using references to develop a drawing is usually not. Especially something as ubiquitous as trestle bents. Google books has many references.

Chris

This is one of the big advantages that see to the ezine format.

Charlie mentions developing the drawing in 3rd Planit utilizing his chosen lumber sizes so I thought it would be something that could be exported to a PDF and provided.

For many of us, we would want to make our own drawing to suit the prototype or the lumber we have on hand. Still, I see a place for having something "ready to go" for those less concerned with that and just wanting to move forward developing a similar scene.

While using the specific drawing out of a book may be a copyright issue, using references to develop a drawing is usually not. Especially something as ubiquitous as trestle bents. Google books has many references.

Chris

Trestle Bent pdf (and 3pi) files

OK guys. You asked for it. Here it is... Bear in mind that this is a really, really simple file. No dimensions on it and scaled for HO.. (and no, I didn't trace this out of the Mallery book and I give permission to copy, use, pass around, etc. as much as you like without restriction)

http://s145079212.onlinehome.us/rr/FramedTrestle/FramedTrestleBent.pdf  - trestle bend .pdf file

http://s145079212.onlinehome.us/rr/FramedTrestle/FramedTrestleBent.3pi - trestle bent 3rd Planit file

Cheers,

Charlie