Re: Steam locomotives still in use

East Broad Top in Pennsylvania did it regularly with standard gauge cars
put onto 3' narrow gauge trucks. They had a purpose built gantry crane
to lift the cars for the truck swap.

Dan Mitchell
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david parsons wrote:
> 
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Roger T. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >"John McCoy"
> >
> >> Well, in theory you could swap trucks, as is done on the
> >> China/Russia border.  In practice running standard guage
> >> stock on metre gauge trucks would not work well.
> >
> >Why not?
> >
> >They did it all the time on the CNR in Newfoundland.  Standard gauge freight
> >cars retrucked to 36"
> 
>     42" gauge.
> 
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