Worldwide Narrow Gauges > Two Footers outside of the US
Electric two footer
Wayne Laepple:
This industrial line in the former East Germany is pretty interesting. One of those hopper cars would make a dandy ballast car. Looks like they need Joe to fix some track!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=312&v=P17Wo7ytxlc
Jeff Schumaker:
Thanks for the link, Wayne.
Jeff S.
Bill Reidy:
There was an electric two-footer in New England, at the Whitin Machine Works in Whitinsville, MA -- a village in Northbridge in the Blackstone River valley. The company had been a pioneer in the use of electric traction for its standard gauge railroad facilities. An article about the WMW in the Volume 12 Issue 4 1981 of the New Haven Railroad Historical & Technical Association's Shoreliner magazine concluded with:
"No story about Whitin Machine Works would be complete without mention of the 2-foot narrow gauge line serving the heavy in-house needs of the foundry and machine shops. This line, too, was electrified, using the same 550 volts as the big brothers. The locomotives seemed grotesque, reaching for the same 21' wire as the standard gauge locomotives. The narrow gauge was dieselized later than the standard gauge division, using two GE 28-ton diesels acquired new in 1949. These machines were rescued from the scrapper by railfans, and see service today on work trains and railfan extras at Edaville Railroad, So. Carver, Mass. There is also one of the narrow gauge electric locomotives on static display at Edaville."
John Kokas:
I always wondered if Edaville would part with one of its diesels. Now I understand the operating ones would be a no, but a static display? I know we have the talent to resurrect something like that and it would most likely be cheaper than building from scratch. Makes one wonder...…………...
Jeff Schumaker:
What ever became of the Whitin electric loco at Edaville? I never knew it was saved.
Jeff S.
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