March 01, 2010 03:24PM
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You know something, ive been searching around quite a bit trying to find a picture or two of the saddle tank engine here. As far as I know of, there was never an engine on display. If you look up on Wikipedia, there is a mention of a small 36 inch gauge line from fort wadsworth to a station on the South Beach line of Staten Island. The engine supposedly ran on that segment of the line. The radius of the track within the fort itself is very very tight. I don't know much about how tight of a radius a small saddle tank can make but it still looks pretty tight to me. Also from what a few of the park rangers and other people were telling me, the tracks within the fort were only used by small hand-pushed carts, used to move munitions and such. I do know for a fact that there was indeed a locomotive there at one point in history. I know somebody sent me a link to a site which had a little bit of info on the line:
Staten Island. I still haven't gotten in touch with the Staten Island Historian yet though. When I get done with this round of tests in school I'm going to try to get in touch.
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