Part 5 – Building the Beam Assemblies The Beam Assemblies There are two beam assemblies each made of eight 3/8” x 1½” beams spaced equally with angled braces as shown in Figure 1. These rest on short bents attached to a full-height bent. Bents #8 and #12 rest on these beams. Two additional beams run […]
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Russell Shilling
This Memorial Day weekend, I did a small, non-train project. I made a planter box plus an old bed headboard that we had on hand. It went pretty well, in spite of the fact I had no plan. (I should have had a plan.) Here is the basic box-planter. This was built with less than […]
Odd-sized Stories and Bent Assemblies After a break for the Holidays and the generally unpleasant freezing weather, I’m back at it. In this installment, I’ll be building the odd-sized stories, adding the mud sills and assembling complete bents. A spreadsheet was used to calculate the height of the bottom story for each bent, as I’m […]
Mass Production of Bent Stories To efficiently build a large trestle such as this, I will take advantage of the many identical assemblies of bent stories. Of the 20 bents, four are less than full height. I’ll handle exceptions like those individually. In this article I will describe how I build the bent stories in […]