Re: 2-foot gauge geared locomotives

While factory records are incomplete, there has long been the report repeated among historians that during WWI there were six 15 ton Climax Class A's built in 2 foot gauge for a Midwestern road contractor, perhaps in Oklahoma. As usual with contracting equipment, these locomotives were dispersed after contract completion. In the associated file there is currently a photograph of a two foot Class A working a highway contract in the mid-west in 1917. There is also an advertisement for sale of contractor's equipment by a supplier in Chicago that includes a two foot gauge Climax in 1918.