A Treatise on Wooden Trestle Bridges (1900)

[eTraxx]

Found this book on Google books. The full title is "A Treatise on Wooden Trestle Bridges According to the Present Practice on American Railroads". Published in 1900, it is 160 pages of .. EVERYTHING you EVER wanted to know about designing, building a wooden trestle.

 

[AyTrane]

Free download on us.archive.org

 

[hminky]

Free download on us.archive.org

Just save the PDF in Google books in the upper right corner. Lots of great railroad engineering books on Google.

Harold

 

[UP2CSX]

Another great refererence and, as Harold said, you can easily save all these gems as PDF's right from the Google site. I find it interesting that UP had the fewest bridges and trestles per mile of all the roads listed.

 

[eTraxx]

Another great refererence and, as Harold said, you can easily save all these gems as PDF's right from the Google site. I find it interesting that UP had the fewest bridges and trestles per mile of all the roads listed.

Also .. you can create a 'virtual library' right there. I made a 'shelf' .. called it 'Railroad' .. you can then "save" the book to that shelf. Pretty cool. While most people could probably care less about out of copyright technical books from the turn of the century these are fantastic resources for those of us that DO care!