Kerouac must have loved the slim gauge

Legendary American poet Jack Kerouac spoke of the narrow guage in his Bohemian novel "The Dharma Bunms" (1958).

In Chapter 6, Japhy Rider (Gary Snyder) jabbers with Ray Smith (Kerouac) in a beatnick cabin in Berkely, Californina...

"I gotta tell you all about the romance of Northwest logging, like you keep talking about railroading, you shoulda seen the little narrow-gauge railways up there and those cold winter mornings with snow and your belly fulla pancakes and syrup and black coffee, boy, and you raise your double-bitted axe to your morning's first log there's nothing like it."