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Coal Banks Trestle: GN Design Practices
Each railroad typically develops its own way of doing things and the GN was no exception. Even within the GN, there are variations which as a modeler, we can use to our advantage when we may not have all of the details on the prototype. The Coal Banks bridge is long gone now and I […]
Coal Banks Trestle: Introduction
One of the modeling jewels along the GN line from Great Falls to Havre, MT is the trestle over the Coal Banks Coulee. This massive steel trestle was typical of the structures needed by railroad construction engineers to cross valleys (a.k.a. coulees) that cut across the otherwise unremarkable prairie from North Dakota to the Rockies. […]