Good things come in narrow packages

[Steve]

Thank you guys!

Galen...I'll see if I can curve the river a bit....space is very limited, obviously , but it would help a lot.

Not wanting to use my old girder bridge, I started looking for something else. Seeing that the "river" is so narrow, a small wooden trestle seemed to make sense. I looked at hundreds of pics, but my mind always seemed to go back to a pic I have seen many times on the home page of this great website:

http://www.wwvrailway.com/index.htm

What sets that little trestle apart are the pointed wooden piers (I haven't found any other trestles like it, although I'm sure that there are).
My river/stream is much narrower than the prototype, so I will be having only one pier (and abutments of course). One challenge is that the trestle will be supporting a turnout and not just straight track, so it will have an irregular shape.

Here is what I have done so far. It still needs a lot of weathering, a couple of splice plates, abutments, and the shape of the river and banks need to be defined and shaped.













I think that the pointed wooden pier gives it a little character. Now I have to shape the river and banks.

Take care