After you read this article
http://www.railway-forum.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=509 you will
understand why this fellow is in mourning. . .
Anytime a trestle departs due to collapse or fire it is a time of mourning.
Gary - Running trains over Terror Trestle in Eugene, Oregon
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For my track and tunnel I knew from the start one club member took a
Roundhouse 0-6-0 boiler and driver assembly and made a cute saddle tank
porter scaled as if running on 2' track. We estimate it is a 1:16 model.
This makes a large scale for a thankfully small loco. Some of my trestle
ref
s the cheese!
- Original Message -
From: "Gary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of sslivesteam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 9:51 AM
Subject: Wine on trestle
> Truth to tell, I have five wine cars.
> This offers a
Gramps Oil, Shell Oil, Texaco Oil, etc. might be a bit off putting.
If an alcohol laden car fell off the trestle, would that be shaken or
stirred?
Regarding the trestle, I can run my RhB long coaches full speed in reverse
with the GE4/4 pushing at 24 volts without mishap. The lighter cars like
The trestle took five months of spare time, but I took 5 weeks off to prove
to my son and wife I could do something else.
The other factor...I work at home providing foster care for adult
schizophrenics. This means I am at home more than many, with plenty of work
tasks, but I was able to do some
My trestle is all cedar. I cut 2x6 cedar boards that were 10-14 feet long into the
dimensional small scale lumber I required. Made lots of sawdust! Cedar saw dust
really keeps weeds down, but looks orange when wet. I painted each leg with below
ground fence post paint. Most of the trestle is
So what's that thing made of? Pine, spruce, basswood? ;]
Guy here at work asked, so now I'm curious!
Trot, the wondering, fox...
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Gary Lane wrote:
> http://www.angelfire.com/or/trainguy/A trestle you can easily walk under.
/\_/\TrotFox
ake a bent
without a jig other than the jig to nail on the top or header.
I wonder if my testle is a record. I know that some pretty big ones went into
that Children's Hospital train display in Texas. I did not start out to make
a record trestle. I just had to cross depression on one end of
Gary:
I just went back to look at your other pic's. That's the most impressive
trestle I've ever seen. If you've got some extra bents I've got a small
river to cross:>)
Jim
Incredibly inspiring loco Vance! All from a Roundhouse chassi . . .
Have you written up how you did this?
Trestle looks nice as well. I have just been making sample trestle bents trying to
decide on four, five, six or eight legs for each bent. The trestle is to be a maximum
of 7'5"
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