Re: J&LS Porter #58 really 24" gauge??
| November 15, 2015 09:06PM |
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Earl Wrote:
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> Anyone care to comment as to why 23" gauge?
It does seem odd, Earl -
Twenty-three inches is about 58.4 cm, a rather odd number, so it doesn't seem to be a metric conversion - although 60 cm gauge IS a possibility.
I wonder if someone mis-measured or mis-recorded something, and it was really 24" gauge? I remember many, many years ago* when the train from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colo. Spgs. was brought to Telluride that it was reported as being 38½" gauge - and incompatible with the Galloping Goose - because someone** was measuring to the outside of the rims of the wheels rather than between the heads of the rails ...
- Willie
* Haich O'Mannder, JBWX, Roger Wigwam & Roosso Loco had only just begun getting their Social Security checks.
** NOT Roosso - he had already returned to his job stomping grapes for the winery at the K.B. Hall Ranch in California.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/15/2015 09:14PM by Johnson Barr.
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> Anyone care to comment as to why 23" gauge?
It does seem odd, Earl -
Twenty-three inches is about 58.4 cm, a rather odd number, so it doesn't seem to be a metric conversion - although 60 cm gauge IS a possibility.
I wonder if someone mis-measured or mis-recorded something, and it was really 24" gauge? I remember many, many years ago* when the train from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colo. Spgs. was brought to Telluride that it was reported as being 38½" gauge - and incompatible with the Galloping Goose - because someone** was measuring to the outside of the rims of the wheels rather than between the heads of the rails ...
- Willie
* Haich O'Mannder, JBWX, Roger Wigwam & Roosso Loco had only just begun getting their Social Security checks.
** NOT Roosso - he had already returned to his job stomping grapes for the winery at the K.B. Hall Ranch in California.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/15/2015 09:14PM by Johnson Barr.
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