As the locomotive reached the end of the trestlework the grade rose a little, and I could see through, or in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South] Reference

Galveston Island (experiment No. 12), and so well did it seem to succeed at first that it was proposed to extend the process to railroad trestlework, to fencing, to supports for houses, and to telegraph poles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885] Reference

His shadow is carried strained coarsely back through the network of wood inside the stable-beams, lodgepoles, stall uprights, trough-trestlework, rafters, wood ceiling-slats the sun comes through: blinding empyrean even at this failing hour of the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gravity's Rainbow]

Nearer and higher loomed the steel trestlework upon which rested the giant engine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Rocked the Earth] Reference

As there were not enough pontoons for two bridges, Sheridan had commenced trestlework for part of one at Bridgeport.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Army of the Cumberland] Reference

I walked all day, following the track, and in the afternoon crossed the long trestlework of the Jersey Central Railroad over Newark.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making of an American] Reference

I walked all day, following the track, and in the afternoon crossed the long trestlework of the Jersey Central Railroad over Newark Bay, with my face set toward Philadelphia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making of an American]

I had only to turn to the department records to find out who made out the returns on that October morning while I was walking the weary length of the trestlework bridge across Raritan Bay, to have him within reach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in Mulberry Street] Reference

After preaching what he felt to be unprovable futilities, it was no small satisfaction to Brenton to come into contact with a man whose sane and practical working creed was supported by a perfect trestlework of interlocking equations based, in their turn, on fundamental and well-proved natural laws.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brentons] Reference

In pursuance of the recommendation (at your last meeting) of the Finance and Inspection Committee, the Board of Directors have made contracts for the filling up of the trestlework and the building of permanent bridges and culverts between Weldon and Gaston, which contracts are now being executed in a satisfactory manner; and we hope will be completed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad Company, Held at Raleigh, Nov. 1, 1856; with the Reports of the President, Treasurer, &c.] Reference

"Colonel Lyon, the general directs that you take the road branching off just below here and leading to the trestlework of the railroad.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Undivided Union] Reference