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Title: Two and a half footer
Post by: Ed Lecuyer on June 22, 2009, 08:15:15 PM

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Wayne Laepple wrote:

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We don't have a thread for "other narrow gauge," so I'll start this one with a link to a YouTube clip of G42, a 30-inch gauge Beyer-Garratt restored in 2004 after more than 30 years and returned to service on the Puffing Billy Railway near Melbourne, Australia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_AhsAqO09k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_AhsAqO09k)

Stephen Hussar replied:

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That IS amazing. There are 18 loaded passenger cars behind that engine!

Ira Schreiber replied:

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What a beautiful sight!
Just imagine that train in the woods of Maine...........