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Chris and Kent demonstrate how to build a trestle from a kit, and you can get started now >>.
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In this episode host Chris Chianelli visits the historic Georgetown Loop Railroad, just outside Denver, Colorado. This railroad, built in 1879, was the hopeful answer to get to the silver mines. But this topography had more than a 6 percent grade. It took some ingenious engineering, but the Georgetown Loop was completed in 1884 and used bridges, trestles and hairpin turns to solve the steep grade.
Later Chris visits Pat Harriman, a master model railroader, in Kansas City, Missouri. Pat has built some impressive bridges and trestles on his HO layout. A hand-built bridge or trestle (ore even one built from a kit) can add lots of drama to any model railroad layout.
Later in the studio Chris is joined by Kent Johnson (Associate Editor, Classic Toy Trains Magazine) for a hands-on demonstration on how to build a trestle from a kit.
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