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dougvv

April 12, 2009 02:38PM

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Hi,

I lost DSL service Friday Morning due to a thunderstorm and just got it back.

While scanning an 1868 Poors manual, I found two items of interest - oddities.

1) there was a railroad in New York State that was 4' 3.5" (not a typo - 51.5") and had about 1/3rd of the 47 miles dual gauge for Erie trackage rights (6 foot gauge).

2) there was a railroad somewhere that had a gauge of 5' 8.5" (sic) and a short piece of dual-gauge (if I understand the notations correctly) with 4' 8.5".

FWIW.

Doug vV

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