Re: Two Questions

snowtownbob Wrote:
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> Well, the Festiniog Railway in North Wales took
> delivery of the World's first revenue earning
> narrow gauge steam locomotives in 1863 (all four
> still exist) and it wasn't until the War between
> the States was over that General William Palmer
> came to Portmadoc, in 1870, to see the Festiniog
> before commencing to build the Denver and Rio
> Grande as a narrow gauge. Several other engineers
> made the same journey of inspection and then went
> home to build other narrow gauge railroads in USA
> and across the World.
> So the short answer to your question is No, there
> wasn't a steam driven narrow gauge railway
> anywhere until 1863.

I am sure that the original "Mountaineer" got scrapped years ago...

G

Gavin

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UK

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