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I pulled my back Friday after a long hard week of mowing lawns, so Saturday I worked on attaching a 3 foot length of flex track to two stringers and got two bents attached. This morning I got the rest of the bents attached, then worked on the side bracing and gerts, got all of those attached too. I used a pair of nippers and cut some pins from the sewing kit short for spikes to put the bracing and gerts on to the bents, the stringers are attached to the bents with small finishing nails set with a nail set. The rails are set to the tracks with short pins pushed into the wood with a nail set. Next I will work on hand rails with even smaller strips of balsa wood. I used elmers white glue on all joints. I will paint the entire trestle a nice dark brown black to look like it is covered in creosote, but leave the rails a redwood color. I still have a lot of balsa wood. the container they are in is 1 foot across and most is 3 feet long, a few dowels are 4 feet long.
  
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Posted - April 24 2016 : 5:24:24 PM
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Dang, that really looks good. Nice haul on the balsa too.
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Posted - April 24 2016 : 6:28:09 PM
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| Hit that one out of the park! Great job!
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Posted - April 24 2016 : 8:53:25 PM
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| Cool Martin. Be looking forward to seeing a locomotive roll across that one.
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Posted - April 24 2016 : 10:39:24 PM
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Very nice work and neatly done! 
As a prototype tip, if you have any really small sticks (approximately 1/16 x 1/16), having them on top of the tie ends parallel to the rails would look like how the full-size railroads have timbers to keep a derailed train car from wandering over the edge.
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Posted - April 25 2016 : 10:24:48 AM
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also the trestles had a platform to hold a barrel of water on
I believe 1 was placed at both ends of trestle
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Posted - April 25 2016 : 2:55:24 PM
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You mean like these platforms? Now I need to make the hand rails. So far with the platforms there are 498 pieces comprising the trestle.  
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Posted - April 25 2016 : 2:57:14 PM
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closeup of landings
 
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Posted - April 25 2016 : 3:00:27 PM
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Try again with the closeups of the landings. 
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Posted - April 25 2016 : 3:12:23 PM
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| yeah just like that
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Posted - April 25 2016 : 5:56:33 PM
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Bears a close resemblance to St. Patrick's Cathedral in downtown El Paso.
At one time it had a recording of bell music wired up. This was built by
Jose Enrique of the El Paso Railroad Model and Historical Association back about 1986.
Yes, Micro, that is a Piper Bonanza having difficulties in the background.
I don't know who stuck that in there, but it wasn't me.
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Posted - April 25 2016 : 8:47:52 PM
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Nice Martin. Great photography.
quote:Try again with the closeups of the landings.
Originally posted by TheDragonslayer - April 25 2016 : 3:00:27 PM
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Posted - April 25 2016 : 10:19:57 PM
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A light in Loews Theater. Will be a good looking building on the set.
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Posted - April 26 2016 : 12:03:49 AM
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Great lighting, iconic film, that. You've done Humphrey
and Katherine proud.
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Posted - April 26 2016 : 12:29:45 AM
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Got all the posts on for one side, including notched posts for the landings, they came out even, 4 to either side of the landings and 20 in between, all spaced three rails apart, 42 posts in all, there will be one or two more on the other side with no landings. I want to put a ladder on the trestle that goes from the top to the bottom to one side of the center, it would be a 90 foot ladder. So far at this stage there are 540 pieces, will go much higher with the other sides posts, the hand rails and the ladder, to about 700, maybe a few more. 
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Posted - April 26 2016 : 08:25:40 AM
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This model gets more impressive by the day!
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Posted - April 26 2016 : 4:15:53 PM
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This morning I got the first set of handrails in, the top set, then I will put on the lower set. The space between the posts is even the entire length of the trestle, so there will be exactly the same number on the opposite side. I think I want two ladders on the front, one on one of the longest bents and one on a short bent, that would make for a 90 foot and a 30 foot ladder and total of pieces to 727.
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Posted - April 26 2016 : 9:47:19 PM
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Yikes! Make sure that no Rebs come along and put a
bittty little match to that thing...
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Posted - April 26 2016 : 11:37:51 PM
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I only worked on the top hand rail today and put on three telegraph poles from the train set I got a month ago. I set the 040 booster engine and three cabooses on the tracks for perspective.
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Posted - April 27 2016 : 3:02:43 PM
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| Those poles add an interesting touch Martin. Cool to see the train on it.
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Posted - April 27 2016 : 3:15:21 PM
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I got all the hand rails done this morning and added thread to the poles for additional realism. It is basically 99% done, 594 pieces so far including the poles. I have the two ladders to make and that will add at least another 134 more pieces.  
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Posted - April 27 2016 : 3:21:36 PM
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Try again, no symbols this time.   
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Posted - April 27 2016 : 9:32:51 PM
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| That's cool how it is so balanced. Is the bottom of that fastened down?
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Posted - April 27 2016 : 11:17:51 PM
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Wow! Nicely done!
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Posted - April 28 2016 : 11:29:14 AM
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quote:A light in Loews Theater. Will be a good looking building on the set.
Originally posted by walt - April 25 2016 : 10:19:57 PM
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if I ever got one of these again
I'd prolly modernize it with the current Loew's logos
make the marquee signs changeable too
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Posted - April 28 2016 : 5:42:51 PM
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I finished the trestle today, made the 30 foot and 90 foot ladders and their supports, 40 pieces for the 30 foot ladder and 115 for the 90 foot ladder and that brings the total pieces of balsa wood to 746.   
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Posted - April 28 2016 : 8:20:19 PM
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| Like WOW! Really good job there.
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Posted - April 29 2016 : 8:35:15 PM
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| Very nice Martin. Be slick to see it when you get in whatever terrain you're going to have.
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Posted - April 30 2016 : 11:39:47 AM
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A nice POLA station.
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Posted - April 30 2016 : 3:33:46 PM
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I cannot tell you how much I hate those plastic poles, the insulators keep snapping off and worst of all are that they are plastic. I took my smallest dowels, put them in the chuck of my drill and using two wood rasps, ran the precut dowels through for the right diameter and taper, plus it gave the wood a texture. I notched the pole with a hacksaw for cross pieces and used small hard metal wire to create V supports that fit into a notch on the pole and holes drilled in the cross piece, I used short pins and glass beads pushed into premade holes for the insulators. I tapered the bottom and predrilled two holes for finishing nails to hold the poles to the trestle. They seem very strong so far.   
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Posted - April 30 2016 : 3:39:38 PM
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| Nice!
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Posted - April 30 2016 : 8:35:12 PM
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quote:A nice POLA station.
Originally posted by toptrain - April 30 2016 : 11:39:47 AM
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yes it is but the Exxon logo is very wrong
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Posted - May 01 2016 : 10:07:46 AM
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| I was talking with one of my clients yesterday, he is a contractor and I thought he might want to see the trestle. I then told him about the HO set I got last month at the thrift store. He told me that he had taken that very same HO set to the thrift store for one of his clients, they could not get it working so she told him to donate it or toss it. This woman is 93 and it was her husbands train set, funny thing is that I work for her son. There are only about 19,000 people in the town I live in, so the odds that I might know the person who used to own the set were pretty good, but I did not know I would know the person personally. I have met the woman who's husband owned the set I bought for $3.95. The 1952 Lionel O scale I saved from the trash belonged to my client who is the contractor, the balsa wood I saved from dumpster doom was from one of his places I helped cleanup.
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Posted - May 02 2016 : 5:27:19 PM
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I used some 1 x 6 cedar to make an armiture that will both hold the trestle and be part of the valley when I build the second table. That way when I need to work on that table, I can remove the trestle, its portion of river and landscape to get it out of the way. It also makes a sturdy platform and display for the trestle till I get the table set up for it. 
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Posted - May 02 2016 : 5:53:04 PM
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wow,fantastic modeling martin,top job,ken
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Posted - May 02 2016 : 8:48:57 PM
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I had the plan for the trestle all made up my head, so went out to the garage and put it together in about 2 hours, I think I will want a third 2 foot table extension making the layout 4 x 10 when it is done. Beyond the trestle will be a steep gorge going up a mountain side. To the left of the table will be the extension and a tunnel into a mountain side and come out another tunnel at the back right side of the table and onto the first table. The backside will be open and the front view terra formed and landscaped.
  
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Posted - May 02 2016 : 9:42:09 PM
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That trestle is looking better and better. I can't wait to see trains running over it
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Posted - May 02 2016 : 9:52:30 PM
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Beautiful!
should someone move this to the layout construction section?
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