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elecuyer

August 08, 2019 09:30AM

Registered: 16 years ago
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GT was always standard gauge.

Actually, the Grand Trunk was constructed as broad gauge (of 5 ft 6 in). It was narrowed to standard gauge between 1872 and 1885.

Ed Lecuyer
Trainmaster, WW&F Railway Museum
Help the WW&F Build Locomotive #11: [build11.wwfry.org]

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