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Trestle tree, a structure that is part of a traditional square rigged sailing ship's top Trestle (heraldry) , a charge in heraldry depicting a three-legged tripod traditionally used as a stool or table support
These crosstrees rest on two trestle trees running fore and aft, which themselves are placed on top of the cheeks of hounds, bolted to the sides of the mast. Placing a few timbers onto the crosstrees produces a useful platform, the top. The futtock shrouds carry the load of the upper shrouds into the mast below. [2]
Railway trestle bridge in Dawson Creek, British Columbia. A trestle bridge is composed of a number of short spans supported by closely spaced trestle frames. Each supporting frame is a bent. A trestle differs from a viaduct in that viaducts have towers that support much longer spans and typically have a higher elevation. [1]
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 ...
Goat Canyon Trestle is a wooden trestle in San Diego County, California. [1] At a length of 597–750 feet (182–229 m), it is the world's largest all-wood trestle. [1] [8] [10] [11] Goat Canyon Trestle was built in 1933 as part of the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway, after one of the many tunnels through the Carrizo Gorge collapsed.
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 .
Line art drawing of crosstrees. Crosstrees are the two horizontal spars at the upper ends of the topmasts of sailing ships that are used to anchor the shrouds from the topgallant mast.
To accommodate these large trees, the rail lines were converted from narrow gauge to standard gauge, and 50 additional logging cars were purchased. [ 12 ] [ 32 ] In 1915, George Hume purchased a third Shay engine and more log cars and yarding engines, expanding the company's logging equipment to include 70 railroad cars, three locomotives, 12 ...