The three-foot gauge Newport & Sherman's Valley RR in central Pennsylvania is not as well known as the nearby East Broad Top. The original N&SV route ran from Newport, along the Pennsylvania RR main line and the Juniata River, to New Germantown, all within the confines of Perry County. Built in 1890, the N&SV lasted until 1934. In 1920, part of the original line, from Newport to Bloomfield Jct., was abandoned in favor of a line from Bloomfield Jct. to New Bloomfield and a connection with the Perry County Railroad, a standard gauge streak of rust from New Bloomfield to Duncannon, where it met the Pennsylvania. At final abandonment in 1934, a number of boxcars and coaches became hunting camps, storage sheds and so forth, and a few survive today. Several stations remain as well.
Below is a photo of waycar No. 12, a boxcar converted to caboose and maintenance of way duties. It sits on a pair of East Broad Top trucks on a short piece of track laid on the original N&SV right of way at Little Buffalo State Park, near Newport.
