2-foot gauge mikados

While searching the files for something else, I came across this cut-and-paste sketch of a Sandy River 2-8-2 that I made 40 years ago while reading Linwood Moody's "The Maine Two-footers". I thought that engine 23 would have looked a lot better with 4 drivers rather than 3. So I added a set of drivers and moved them closer together and numbered the engine 25. Of course this was strictly fantasy. In real life there was only one 2-foot gauge mike ever built for service in North America, as shown below. But Baldwin built 2-foot mikes for India, and there were many 2-8-2s in service on the South African 2-foot gauge lines.





This photo by Ron Johnson shows 2-foot gauge Baldwin mike 756 at Gwalior, in central India, departing with an afternoon passenger train.
(if per chance Ron should follow the forum, I would much like to re-connect with him)



The South African NG15s were probably the most numerous of 2-foot gauge mikes





Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 03/25/2019 10:16PM by Olaf Rasmussen.