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Folding trestles Fixed trestle. In structural engineering, a trestle support (or simply trestle) is a structural element with rigid beams forming the equal sides of two parallel isosceles triangles, joined at their apices by a plank or beam.
A trestle bridge is a bridge composed of a number of short spans supported by closely spaced frames. A trestle (sometimes tressel) is a rigid frame used as a support, historically a tripod used to support a stool or a pair of isosceles triangles joined at their apices by a plank or beam such as the support structure for a trestle table.
Trestle or Trestles may refer to: Structures and structural elements: Trestle support, the structural element that supports a trestle bridge, trestle desk, trestle table, or similar structures; Trestle bridge, a bridge composed of trestle support elements Trestles Bridge, a railroad viaduct in California
In communist former East Germany (GDR, 1945-1990), aluminum or Copper-clad aluminium wire (″AlCu-Kabel″) had to be used for wiring as copper was expensive to import. [4] While all devices were designed for aluminum during that era, this ended with unification in 1990 when standard Western European equipment became available and the national ...
Coal-fired steam locomotive locomotive No. 12 is the only surviving narrow-gauge engine of the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad (ET&WNC). Built in 1917 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works , No. 12 is a 3 ft ( 914 mm ) gauge 4-6-0 coal-fired locomotive that ran from 1918 to 1940 carrying passengers and freight over the ET&WNC's 66 ...
Trestles Bridge; Triple Crossing; Tulip Viaduct; Union Street Railroad Bridge and Trestle, near Salem, Oregon, NRHP-listed [1] U.S. 61 Bonnet Carré Spillway Bridge, Louisiana; Verrazano Bridge (Maryland) Warrens Bridge (c. 1930), Arkansas; West James Street Overpass (1924), Redfield, Arkansas; Wilburton Trestle (1904), Washington
American trestle table, 18th century Trestle table at the Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia Trestle tables with free-standing trestles in the c.1955 microbiology lab of Joseph Lister. In woodworking , a trestle table is a table consisting of two or three trestle supports , often linked by a stretcher (longitudinal cross-member), over which ...
A fill trestle or filling trestle [1] is a temporary construction trestle that is built to provide a scaffolding for the placement of fill or an earthen dam.Typically, the trestle is built across the valley and a railway is laid across the trestle.