Re: First Taste of 3' Gauge

My first taste of 3' gauge was in 1965 In Honolulu, but I didn't even know it. I was tooling around Hono on a rented motorcycle and ran across some railroad tracks. The tracks crossed the road at an angle and I was turning to cross at right angles, so I missed that they were only three feet apart. Of course by 1965 there were no trains running, but had I chased them down there were still things to see.

My first real three footer was the Sumpter Valley in August 1976. The ride was very short, but it was cheap. I joined up, and four weeks later I was running the locomotive; promotions came fast in those days. Fortunately we had a few old timers around to keep us from hurting ourselves.