| April 05, 2019 08:10PM |
Here is an operating 0-3-0 on the narrowest of all narrow gauges - the Patiala State Monorail in India. The monorail once had a length of 40 miles. When service was discontinued, all the equipment was kept in a locked building and forgotten for decades. Now one of the 0-3-0s operates on a loop in the Delhi Railroad Museum. Quite an amazing critter, guided by double-flanged wheels and balanced by an outrigger cart wheel riding on a narrow strip of pavement or packed dirt. Certainly a highlight of my first trip to India in 2016.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
The NGDF was started by Don Richter and is currently operated in his memory by Nathan Holmes and others. Others who have contributed to the upkeep of this board are (in no particular order): Charles McCandless, Everett Lueck, Ted Wilton, Cole Adams, James Bane, John Moellmer, Jon Bentz, Linn Moedinger, lloyd lehrer, Rod Jensen, John Craft, Steven Forney, Herb Kelsey, Bill Ramaley, Russ Sperry (El Russo Loco), Josh McNeal, John West, Jim Armstrong, Bob Bergstrom, Greg Scholl, Blake Forbes Doug van Veelen and Mark Fuller.