Trestle

Trestle A structure of braced timber, piles, or steelwork with short spans. Trim lead Tracks in a yard used to move cars from the bowl to the departure yard.

Trestles and Bridges!! Changing elevation with trestles and bridges makes for a truly "3D" operation. You can enjoy multi-train, multi-level operations that increase realism, interest and appeal.

Trestle. A bridge structure consisting of beam, girder or truss spans supported upon bents. The bents may be of the piled or of the frame type.

Trestle A wooden bridge-like structure usually having all supporting members below the railway tracks. Trolley ...

- A Trestle refers to a bridge consisting of several short spans of track that are supported along the length by "trestles" (pilings, or bents) of timber or steel. If the "trestle " is made of stone, it is usually called a viaduct.

Steel trestle. Spectacular bridge in Southern British Columbia. See also ...

Coaling Trestle - An elevated structure where coal is dumped into storage bins from railroad cars or trucks. ...

Lionel graduated trestle sets rise about 0.5" each track section, 8.75" for O-27, making it 5.7% grade. This would be a torturous grade for a real railroad, whose normal heavy grade is 2.5 to 3%.

To get your Master Builders Structures certificate, you need to build twelve different structures, one of which must be a bridge or trestle.

A fill usually began as a wooden trestle over a ravine or other low spot, which was gradually filled in by digging earth out of a nearby cut, then dumping it off the trestle to fill up the gap until the trestle became superfluous.

Three large "G gauge" trains traveled over trestles, into tunnels, beside lakes and through forests as they transported freight and passengers among the miniature villages and towns.

Pushers returning light cross the Davis Creek Trestle on Oct 4th, 1987-Stuart Thayer Pushers returning to the bottom cross Davis Creek Trestle, Oct 4th, 1987-Stuart Thayer The EB Unit train leaves Charleston, WV on June 11th, 1989-Stuart Thayer ...

Just before World War Two, I hiked between rails just two feet apart and across tiny little trestles along East Austin Creek in Sonoma County. The locals called it the Magnasite Mine Railway.

You could even have a section drop down for a bridge or trestle as long as the ends remain at the correct height to connect to the adjacent modules. Extended scenes, sidings, and yards can span several modules.

Viaduct : A railway structure which is used to carry railway tracks above the general level of the ground and is usually made up of a continuous series of bridges or trestles. Volt : A unit of electrical pressure.

Trestle - A wooden bridge structure of regularly placed bents. Trolley - Pole mounted on a roof of electric vehicle with a wheel attached to outer end to pick up electric current from overhead contact wire.

See also: Train, Track, Switch, Special, Point