Trestle

This image was taken on one of the railroad tracks near Pismo Beach. Notice that there are two sets of tracks. This is known as a gauntlet track or interlaced track (also gantlet track). It is an arrangement in which railway tracks run parallel on a single track bed and are interlaced (i.e., overlapped) such that only one pair of rails may be used at a time. Since this requires only slightly more width than a single track, all rails can be carried on the same crossties/sleepers. Trains run on the discrete pair of rails appropriate to their direction, track gauge or loading gauge.

The term gauntlet is derived not from gauntlet meaning a type of glove, but from the expression running the gauntlet (originally running the gantlope) which means running between two confining rows of adversaries; gauntlet in this sense is a “corrupt form”. (wikipedia)

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