November 16, 2021 05:55PM
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After a short bit of looking, it seems that common narrow gauge in Poland before WW2 could have been 600mm (23.6 ") or 750mm (29.5") for the narrow gauge lines to the sugar factories of the region. Your photo of the cut off track in the crossing looks a lot wider than that.to my eyes. If the spur in question leads to a quarry, and the quarry track is a different gauge, there'd have to be a transfer area to get the loads from one track gauge to the other. I have to ask if there's a spot along the track where that could take place. If the material was aggregate, the 2 tracks might be at different levels and use gravity to transfer the loads. If the commodity is structural( as in stone blocks for buildings), then the tracks could be parallel and a crane might used to transfer the loads from one gauge to the other. My vote is the gauge of track in the crossing is standard gauge. The ties at the far end of the crossing look like the length we use here and the distance from end of tie to the rail look like standard gauge, at least to me. Sounds like we need to get someone with a ruler and do measuring
. My first impression when I read your first post and looked the crossing, was that maybe of a gauge wider than standard. That could be the case if the ground traversed between the quarry and the station was/is swampy. Guessing the gauge from the photo is tough. A tape to the rails is the only way you can know for sure. Good Luck.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/16/2021 05:56PM by Ed Horan.
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