Hi, even if the primary emphasis of this forum is on railroads operating in the US I would like to point out the internet address of a similar German discussion forum on narrow gauge railroading, called "Das Schmalspur-Forum".
I myself had the chance to spend many years in the US in the frame of Space business and Launch campaigns (since 1979, primarily in Washington DC, Colorado, California and Florida) and know many of the narrow gauge lines discussed herein. Therefore I very often visit this page.
I am also actively working as conductor on a narrow gauge museum railroad (operating steam engines) called "Oechsle Museumsschmalspurbahn" (http://www.oechsle-bahn.de) near Ulm in the southern part of Germany.
If anybody is interested to get in touch with me online, my AOL screen names are "wemi1144" or "MillWerner" (home).