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Brian Norden

January 02, 2012 04:54PM

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Back on your subject.

Two ideas/guesses.

Number 1
Do you have any idea who built the first locomotive? Somebody other than the regular locomotive builders?

My guess is that the locomotive may have been built with 48" from outside of flange to outside of flange. Or maybe even 48" center of flange to center of flange.

Then to accommodate it the track gauge was pushed out to 4'-1"

Number 2
Before the railroad was there some kind of a tramway that was incorporated into the railroad? The tramway or its cars might have had a nominal gauge of 4'. Again maybe 4' between center of flanges. But to accommodate the use of regular railroad construction the gauge became 4'-1"

Brian Norden

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