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Title: A European model rr with standard gauge cars being put onto narrow g trucks
Post by: fred lundgren on November 28, 2015, 07:58:29 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pua11RvVclU

Title: Re: A European model rr with standard gauge cars being put onto narrow g trucks
Post by: Len on November 29, 2015, 02:01:05 PM

Interesting, but not quite the same as the Ramsey Car Truck Shifting Apparatus that actually swapped cars between standard gauge and narrow gauge trucks on several railroads in the U.S.

One of these days I need to add a Ramsey ditch to the KL&B Eastern Lines RR Museum.

Len

Title: Re: A European model rr with standard gauge cars being put onto narrow g trucks
Post by: ebtnut on November 30, 2015, 10:54:25 AM

Or the example of the East Broad Top, which used an overhead crane to lift the cars off their S.G. trucks and have them replaced with N.G. trucks with special wide bolster inserts.

Title: Re: A European model rr with standard gauge cars being put onto narrow g trucks
Post by: p51 on December 01, 2015, 02:35:12 PM

If the ET&WNC hadn't had such good third rail for so long and if they'd had a good crane for it, I could imagine them doing the same thing, just the EBT had...

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