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Andrew and I will both be attending and speaking... The SPng Society will have a table (likely a good place to find us) Andrew and I have a joint clinic on paint... Andrew has a clinic on NCNG (with photos you have never seen) The Farmer Brothers will be there talking about the progress on C&S 1008....

The following is an attempt to distill C&C passenger car histories, separate from the pollution with is SPng history... for eventual posting on the C&C railroad history page on this site... Carson & Colorado Passenger Equipment, 1881-1900 (including cabooses, officer’s cars and express box cars) A d...

Conventional thought suggests that the first narrow gauge railroad in the US was the D&RG... and their locomotives the first built, but there are other earlier narrow gauge locomotives locomotive built. Boston locomotive builder Souther (Globe Locomotive Works) is known to have built some 38" gauge ...

In May 2014, a couple of days before our Lone Pine conference, our (then) president asked a question about the location of the Keeler turntable on the SPng yahoo group… Now in July 2018, the question has been asked again Hello all, We have all heard that there was a turntable located at Keeler (assu...

This is a work in progress, posted here due to a question on our Facebook site... This started as a piece on just Castle Crag Lumber - M. A. Burns but grew to encompass the others who logged on this site... 3' gauge logging railroad, West from the lumber mill located on Castle Creek, just above Cast...

And.... a photo of one of the The Glenmore & Elsewhere Railroad Plymouths...

I have located a second bourbon distillery with a narrow gauge railroad... This time T. W. Samuels, who purchased a Milwaukee model W for their 1 mile long railroad. The T. W. Samuels distillary was closed by the depression and dismantled, but the son opened a new distillery after the war... which t...

The Light Railway Research Society has a wonderful page on the narrow gauge sugar cane railroads of Australia... with additional info on other narrow gauge in the region... http://www.lrrsa.org.au/LRR_SGRb.htm#Introduction_a

A drawing of the 4 wheel cars and a color rendering by Jim Wilke
On the 4 wheel cabooses

I suspect V&T early freight cars were any of mineral red, slate, or ocher yellow... And if we include the post 1900 Colorado Midland cars, black... We have only a few anchor points, and the CP yellow is found on box cars.... and is not known if flats were painted that way too.... It appears that the...