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The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum (Welsh: Amgueddfa Rheilffyrdd Bach Cul) is a purpose-built museum dedicated to narrow-gauge railways situated at the Tywyn Wharf station of the Talyllyn Railway in Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales. The museum has a collection of more than 1,000 items from over eighty narrow-gauge railways in Wales, England, the Isle of Man ...
Robert W. Richardson was born on May 21, 1910, in Rochester, Pennsylvania. He moved with his parents to Akron, Ohio, in 1915, and attended high school there.As a teenager, he enjoyed watching and photographing trains in Ohio and Pennsylvania: his photographic archiving of soon-to-vanish railroads began in May 1931 when he borrowed a camera to record a day with the Ohio River & Western Railway ...
Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad roundhouse, Durango, Colorado; Colorado Railroad Museum roundhouse, Golden, Colorado; Union Pacific roundhouse, Hugo, Colorado; Leadville, Colorado & Southern (D&RGW) roundhouse, Leadville, CO; Tiny Town RR roundhouse & turntable, Morrison, CO 15" gauge tourist RR
Pages in category "Narrow-gauge railroads in Pennsylvania" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "Narrow gauge railroads in Pennsylvania" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Narrow Gauge Railway Centre at Gloddfa Ganol [10] 1978 [43] 1997 2 ft (610 mm) 1 ⁄ 2 mile (0.80 km) Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales: Then the largest collection of narrow-gauge locomotives in Britain, with over 70 present; housed in the former Oakeley slate quarry. Golden Valley Light Railway: Late 1980s Present 2 ft (610 mm) Just under 1-mile ...
The Penrhyn Quarry Railway was a narrow-gauge railway in Caernarfonshire (now Gwynedd), Wales. It served the Penrhyn quarry near Bethesda, taking their slate produce to Port Penrhyn, near Bangor. The railway was around six miles (9.7 km) long and used a gauge of 1 ft 10 + 3 ⁄ 4 in (578 mm).
Talyllyn was the first order the company had delivered to north Wales and the first narrow gauge locomotive they had built with plate frames. [3] It was built to the company's C Class design, although it was the first member of its class to be built to a gauge less than 2 ft 8 in (813 mm). [2]