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Stewart Rhine

September 11, 2020 12:53PM

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That's a real neat set of plans for C&S standard and narrow gauge trestle design.

Wooden trestles often had long iron rods called drift pins that were driven down through the stringers into the bent caps. Some railroads used trestle bolts to secure the stringers to the bents, and on your plan it looks like it shows trestle bolts. The bolts were installed with large cast bridge washers on both ends of the bolt to prevent it from pulling through the wood when the nuts were tightened.

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