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PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR Timber trestles on the C&TT Railroad They are scratchbuilt to span mountainous canyons and gorges/Tom Troughton S


everal years ago, RAILROAD MOD- EL CRAFTSMAN published two arti- cles featuring the wooden trestles


I scratchbuilt for my Sn3 Cimarron & Tall Timbers Railroad. The Cimarron Canyon Trestle was described in the September, 1999, issue, and the three bridges at Silver King Junction were covered in the July, 2000, issue. My C&TT Railroad was started in 1995 and was designed to have many mines, tres- tles and a narrow, cliff-hugging right-of- way in much the same vein as the Den- ver & Rio Grande Western in Colorado and New Mexico. You can still ride parts of the former D&RGW on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad (http:// cumbrestoltec.com/) and the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (www.durangotrain.com/). Back then I used 35mm Ektachrome film but didn’t do a very good job of pho- tographing the bridges. The color bal- ance wasn’t exactly what I wanted, but now digital cameras are pretty much the norm and obtaining the correct color temperature of the lighting is much easi-


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One of the largest trestles on the layout is at Cimarron Canyon. It’s a combination of a deck truss and trestle that’s made with basswood, music wire, brads and homemade n.b.w.’s, plus code 70 and 55 rail. The two large n.b.w. castings on the support timber were made from RTV molds from masters created with scraps of different diameter wire used for truss rods. The castings were made with 5-Minute Epoxy®


and glued in placed with cyanoacrylate. 73


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