Re: The top narrow gauge locations of all time

The south (or west) side of Mount Montgomery Pass of the old Carson & Colorado (later Southern Pacific) has got to be on the list of top narrow gauge sites.
This line is just, if not more, spectacular as anything in Colorado. Rock retaining walls like "The Palisades." Sixty-foot deep cuts and sixty foot high fills with six-foot-high-plus stone culverts. It had a tunnel on a grade with a curve. The summit of the pass at 7141 feet was higher than the line over Donner Pass.
You came off the saddle of the pass and the train turned left. Looking out beyond the curve you could see the snow covered Sierra Nevadas miles distance and the valley floor a thousand feet below you. This valley floor was only about four or five miles away as the crow flies for the summit. By railroad the Queen station was 8.3 miles down grade and nearly a thousand feet lower. It was a mountain railroad.
Brian Norden