November 17, 2021 01:24PM
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I am surprised that Olaf hasn't given an opinion here, for a person who has done much off road hiking on railroad grades into distant locations to get photos of rail lines and steam operations, I would suspect that he would have a great eye for gauging rail line comparisons.
I for one at first glance felt that the two rails were spaced the same, thus being the same gauge, but it has been interesting to look at how others would try and put an geometrical algorithms together to develop a great hypothesis. And too look better at the phrasing of the sentence in description's.
I grew up on a section of rural land on the edge of a small town, three house east of our home was a rail line that fed limestone,among other things, to an industrious steel plant, talking to my brothers about what they remembered being operated on the rails during their youth they rarely saw a large locomotive doing special duties on this section of track, the locomotives were smaller. Four house to the west and little farther away was a mainline where much variety of goods traversed the rails and larger locomotives were used to move said goods from distances of hundreds of miles, my brothers remember the locomotives being bigger in sizes and the freights longer in length than on the other sections of track, both sections of trackage were the same gauge. This may not be a great comparison but if you read into it you may want to think that the smaller locomotives could have operated on a narrower track. Just some other perspectives.
Still a Student,
Dave
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