Re: Porter 0-4-0s

CR BT Dispr Wrote:
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> There's this one at the Adirondack Experience
> museum.

That's from the Marion Carry Railroad, the world's shortest standard gauge railroad at about 1,600 ft., running between the end of navigation on Raquette Lake and Long Lake. The area was the playground of the robber barons in the 1890's, and Raquette Lake was at the end of the line for private rail car travel. The rich folks would then take a steam boat across Raquette Lake to the Marion Carry, where they would walk the 1,600 ft. to board another steam boat on Long Lake. The story is that one of the fat cat's wives took exception to having the walk to the next lake, so he had a railroad built so she could ride.

It also hauled freight cars barged across Raquette Lake. Supposedly there is a hopper car sunk in the lake that rolled off the barge.