This is the trestle I'm working on for my layout set in the Pacific Northwest (early '70s). Bye, Giovanni www.plasticando.com
Thats gonna be extra sweet on the layout. A railroad without a trestle is like a day without sunshine.
That is really nice. Also if you need any reference photos of the Pacific Northwest just let me know and I can send some off to ya.
Looking good. How did you make it so level on the top? I talked to a guy who made a curved trestle and he told me that he built it upside down on a table so that the track-bed wouldn't be anything other than perfectly flat. What sort of wood did you use? I guess I should ask first if it is wood? If not, it sure looks like wood.
Super Goat, of course every contribution of reference photos of the Pacific Northwest is very very welcome! I'm looking a way to model a yard/junction where the Milwaukee cross a NP route! Ciao,
Steam Donkey, of course it is wood. It's the kind of wood you usually find in the hobby shop. I use the 3x3 mm (I guess it's abut an 1/8 x 1/8 inch) for the biggest part of the frame and a 1x2 mm for the smallest. Before to built the trestle, I built the track bed, so it's flat! It's easier to make than to explain. Here is a shots I took of the trestle on the layout! Ciao,
As I've lived most of my life in the Pacific NW, Montana and Washington), I always enjoy seeing people's renditions of familiar scenery. Boxcab E50
Well, very near to where SuperGoat lives, was a place named Kanaskat. Where a Milw branch line crossed the NP transcontinental main. It's had major changes over the years. The first was in 1959. When the Howard Hansen Dam was built, and the NP line was moved up hill. Which eliminated the connection between those two. Boxcab E50
don't tell him that alot of those wood bridges are still in use all over WA some over roads, some over rivers and salt water and even over railroad tracks!
In the early 70s, it wouldn't be NP anymore. It would be BN, with a chaotic mix of Cascade green and various CB&Q, GN, NP and SP&S schemes.
Well, technically, albeit briefly, the NP did exist in the early 1970's. As it's last full day of operation was March 2, 1970. The next day, a lot of unhappy fans, myself included, and employees... :sad: Boxcab E50
The only crossing i can think of off hand was the Milwaukee's crossing of the NP double track main just north of NP's Tacoma Head of the Bay yard at Reservation Tower.
The Milw crossed NP rails in many places where there was no yard or junction. Such as Bill noted, above Reservation in Tacoma. On the transcontinental main- Just west of Lake Easton, east of Thorp at bridge EE384B, Warden, Rosalia, etc, etc. There was a connecting track at Easton. But that was primarily used for detours. No interchange. Then there were branch lines. Such as one I've noted previously. Boxcab E50
No, actually I didn t. I have copied the first bent I made to make the 3 more I needed and I built in the same way the two shorter I used on the most estreme bents. Ciao, Giovanni
That is a neat bridge. It would be neat if it were in the 1980's then a few C 30's and a all BN coal train with a caboose could traverse this fine speciman of a trestle.
There was one place where the milw had a siding that came off of the Tacoma Eastern ( milw main to Centraila/Morton) near E. J st it went down a grade next to the trestle went thought a 45 degree dimond to a switch that was connected NP's siding that came from Tacoma Yard that crossed Puyallup Ave the NP siding went under the milw trestle and served a lumber yard and a cement plant
