Some people, such as Dave Lamberts, scratch and gouge the wood to make it look more realistic, then glue on thousands of nut and washer castings. After all the bents were assembled, I traced the shape of the curve onto a piece of newsprint, and assembled the trestle upside down along the curve. I started by gluing pairs of bents together, connected by horizontal braces, called longitudinal tie beams. Then the paired towers were connected together with more tie beams. Then I cut the roadbed out from under the track and glued two stringers underneath the ties.
Stringers consist of three narrow pieces of wood glued together.
The trestle was c-clamped and glued to the stringers. A base was made nineteen inches underneath the track and plywood platforms cut to fit between the base and the bottom of the bents. Some wood shims were needed in some places to get the platforms to touch the bents. The tops of the platforms were painted before gluing them in place. Most of the height of these will later be covered with scenery.