Re: Why not a Wye in Antonito?
| December 29, 2017 02:26PM |
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Glenn Butcher Wrote:
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> Probably never happen, but I think re-laying the
> SLRG-C&TS connection as dual-gauge would
> do a lot to facilitate illustrating the utility and the
> challenge of multiple gauges. To add to my de-
> lusion, let's reconstruct the trackwork as shown
> in this photo [of the NPS special on 11/24/68]:
Photo Copyright 1968, 2013 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved
Right On, Glenn!
— Including the third leg of the wye, barely visible in the background. . . . and don't forget the swish! (See [ngdiscussion.net] and – while you're at it – [ngdiscussion.net] two dozen posts earlier in the same thread.*) Apparently great minds think alike, or "Where there's a Will there's a Wye" . . .
- Willie
* There's also a rare, as-yet-undeleted post by Jerry Day in that same thread!!
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> Probably never happen, but I think re-laying the
> SLRG-C&TS connection as dual-gauge would
> do a lot to facilitate illustrating the utility and the
> challenge of multiple gauges. To add to my de-
> lusion, let's reconstruct the trackwork as shown
> in this photo [of the NPS special on 11/24/68]:
Photo Copyright 1968, 2013 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved
Right On, Glenn!
— Including the third leg of the wye, barely visible in the background. . . . and don't forget the swish! (See [ngdiscussion.net] and – while you're at it – [ngdiscussion.net] two dozen posts earlier in the same thread.*) Apparently great minds think alike, or "Where there's a Will there's a Wye" . . .
- Willie
* There's also a rare, as-yet-undeleted post by Jerry Day in that same thread!!
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