Talk:Trestle bridge

Can someone who knows what a trestle really is sort this mess out ?
Trestle: "A support for something, consisting of a short horizontal beam or bar with diverging legs, usually two at each end; esp. one of a pair or set used to support a board so as to form a table"

Trestle bridge: a bridge supported on trestles - and NOT any other kind of framework !

Trestle table: a table supported by trestles.

Disambiguation page needed?
I have today created an entry for trestle table - with links to other trestle-based structures - and I'd like to invite comments before dealing with the word trestle as a separate item to the bridge entry here.

This might involve a disambiguation page, in order to preserve the title here, which I accept is the commonly-used term for this kind of structure (ie, trestle bridge may not be appropriate terminology) The entry at Merriam-Webster clearly lists the two uses as distinct, which I feel ought to be the Wikipedia approach. mikaul 00:33, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 'Trestle' on its own does not appear on the disambiguation page. 'Trestle support' appears, mentions a.k.a. 'trestle legs' but simply describes a trestle. 'support' and 'legs' being completely unnecessary and wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.225.2.251 (talk) 21:17, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

Trestles as surf spots
I've removed the following as it is irrelevant to this article, but it may be suitable for a new article, with appropriate disambiguation: Trestles. - + Trestles is a collection on surf spots in Southern California consisting of: uppers, lowers, old mans, churches, etc. Lower trestles is one of the most rippable waves on the planet. there is a competition held at this break every year on the ASP world tour as well as the NSSA Nationals. -- Kvetner 13:22, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * There's probably not enough here to warrant a disambig page. I'll set up a link on this page instead and create a new page for 'Trestles' --mikaul 00:08, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

What?
The last paragraph makes no sense whatsoever. I won't fix it, in case someone can explain it to me, but it is highly random. --SkyScrapers (talk) 01:10, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Cleaned up last two paragraphs- Leonard G. (talk) 01:21, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Inappropriate Image
The images User:Centpacrr added to Trestle of City Point Trestle in Belfast ME are not images of a trestle (see image:Steel_Deck_Trestle,_Belfast,_ME.jpg and image:AlhambraTrestle.jpg). City Point Trestle may be known as a trestle, perhaps because it replaced a former trestle, but it is clearly a truss bridge, specifically, a deck truss. Douglas W. Jones (talk) 04:45, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
 * This structure has been called "City Point Trestle" since the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad opened in 1870, but I have removed the images from this gallery pending further investigation of the issue of how it should be properly classified. Centpacrr (talk) 05:09, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. The photo is a nice one, and I think it would be a nice illustration for truss bridge.  You've confirmed my guess about the name -- that it is a historic name that has persisted despite the rebuilding of the bridge using a different technology.128.255.45.232 (talk) 15:06, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

New image needing placement
I'm not a regular at this article, so will leave it to others to place or not place this new image. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 06:46, 25 July 2012 (UTC) ✅ Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:01, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Albert Fink and American railroads
A lot of info and pictures are missing about the American railroads... Albert Fink and may others used lattice truss designs starting around 1855 or so, made of wrought iron and cast iron. These are well documented at Truss bridge and other places. So we need to add some of these tidbits to the article.

Actually, European engineers of the 19th century were quite ignorant of proper Cast_iron construction. Both the Dee Bridge disaster and the Tay_Rail_Bridge are educational. Meanwhile, a lot of better engineering of train trestles was being done by Fink and others over in America. Britain's famous engineer, Robert Stephenson, made completely hideous junk like the Conwy Railway Bridge, which is functional but hardly known as a "trestle" and doesn't use trusses. The second Tay Bridge is a bit of an eyesore, too, and was built so late compared to the American trestles that those engineers were able to copy American designs and avoid most of the mistakes of the one laying at the bottom of the firth with the corpses of those who had died. I would definitely minimize the contributions made by the United Kingdom to trestle designs, which were quite embarrassing. I like to saw logs! (talk) 18:28, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Last 'sentence' in intro
I can't figure out what this sentence means at the end of the intro section -- it doesn't appear to have a verb.

"For the purposes of discharging material below, a coal trestle, a carried dead-end track, rather than a bridge."

I'd correct it, except I'm not sure what to change...

rc (talk) 15:59, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Requested move 12 October 2021
There's a discussion at Talk:Trestles, where moving and  is considered. All are welcome to contribute. 85.67.32.244 (talk) 12:26, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

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