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| Author: | tomgears [ Tue Mar 30, 2010 11:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | WALES WEST RAILWAYS & RV Resort |
This came through on railpictures.net, an operation I never heard of before. http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 109&nseq=6 http://www.waleswest.com/ |
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| Author: | o anderson [ Wed Mar 31, 2010 11:27 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WALES WEST RAILWAYS & RV Resort |
The new (2004) locomotives for Wales West were mentioned here before: http://rypn.sunserver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=11408&p=52369&hilit=exmoor#p52369 I find it interesting that the locomotives appear a bit undersized for the gauge they are built. It appears it could just as well be narrowed to 18" gauge. Here is a virtually identically proportioned locomotive on the Sand Hutton railway: ![]() The Sand Hutton Light Railway: http://www.btinternet.com/~hoppitt/shlr/slide01.htm Welsh engines were sometimes small like this, but it also may be a trait of the builder. A number of Exmoor 15" gauge locomotives have been narrowed to 10 1/4" gauge. It is also of note that a significant portion of the fleet of 22 3/4" gauge quarry Hunslets were imported to the US and Canada in the 1960s. I don't know of one that operates. Can anyone inform us about the fate of the 3 engines in Terre Haute, Indiana? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunslet_Engine_Company http://ronfisher.fotopic.net/c916150.html |
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| Author: | PaulWWoodring [ Wed Mar 31, 2010 12:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WALES WEST RAILWAYS & RV Resort |
This operation sounds a lot like Brookins Trolleyville USA in the way it's a private tourist railway operating around a trailer park (although Columbia Park was - and still is - a full-time mobile home park). If there aren't provisions made for them in any estate sale, the live steam club could find themselves without a home someday - like the Trolleyville collection did. Fortunately, it doesn't look like any incredibly rare and valuable artifacts are kept there. |
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