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World Wide Listing of Two foot, 1' 11 1/2", 600 mm (60cm) & 610mm Railroads
ww2ft Listing - twofoot mega-link site Last Update 2005-10-1
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Trivia Question : Was the smallest mallet 60 cm? archives
Jan 2005 News: Marklin model train exhibits stolen from Museum
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Listing by country A-C D-E F-K L-P Q-T U-V W-Z
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U [US] V W X Y Z
Acknowledgements to John Dennis reviewing Australian listings, Michael Johnson of the 30" list, Jorge Garreta Mendoza who will be providing information on South America, Elio Galessio for Peru, Mark Kendricks, Clark's NGRR site for much info on the US and Mexico, Dag Grada, David Meller for providing much of the information about Poland (Belarus, Lithuania & Ukraine) railways, Thomas Yorke, John Rye, Bruce Mohn, Michael Kelter, John A. McCulloch, John Raby, Euro Jones and room for this list to grow ;^ ) . I must also thank the many authors who's great work I have catalogued with my links pages.
Was the smallest mallet 60 cm?
Was the first Internal Combustion locomotive 600 mm
Was there only one two foot Climax built? cn-1387
Did you know there was an two foot railway that used sails for temporary power? Answer (see Falkland Islands page 10)
Did you know there was an two foot underground railway built just for a post office? Closed in 2003. Answer
Did you know there was a planned 2' common carrier chartered in Canada? Answer
Did you know, there was a 21 1/2" gauge railroad where the wheel flanges ran on the outside of the rails? Answer
Did you know that all of the YAHS (left handed shays) built; were two foot ? Do you know how many, and who they where built for? Answer
Cuban Steam locomotives are for sale
Primarily, this site is devoted to links of prototype information to assist modelers and railfans. Every attempt is made to have accurate and complete information. This list will never be 100% complete, as there were so many small undocumented railways around the world. I expect this will become a monster list as it is. If you can add or correct erroneous information please e-mail Bill Kerr. Any help in creating this list will be appreciated. My acknowledgement to those sites that I have derived much of this information from. Where possible I have listed them as the "source".
Museums are also listed. One list as many of the the railroads are also currently run as tourist lines or museums sites. There are sites with static displays (locomotives), that are not operating railroads, I have listed them, but their titles are not in Bold. The listings are broken up over six pages for faster loading over the Internet. There are many sites dedicated to locomotives where additional information can also be found. Ran into sites with some twofoot information, too good to pass up, but where to put these? Also, there is a section just devoted to WW1 information.
It was the world wide 30" gauge listing that inspired the two foot listing. For 18" gauge railroads you can visit here. Narrower? Try monorails (scroll down page) Again my thanks and acknowledgment to the many sites where I have used their information to create my listings, if it was not for them, this list could never exist. Individual acknowledgements for John Dennis reviewing Australian listings, Michael Johnson of the 30" list, Jorge Garreta Mendoza who will be providing information on South America, Elio Galessio for Peru, Mark Kendricks, Clark's NGRR site for much info on the US and Mexico, Dag Grada, David Meller for providing much of the information about Poland (Belarus, Lithuania & Ukraine) railways, and room for this list to grow ;^ )
Latest Updates for Aug 2005
World Wide Listings (not two foot but interesting)
British Overseas Railways Historical Trust Their aim "To promote the study of the history of railways in the Commonwealth (excluding the UK)." You will find their publications of interest.
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Monorails interested in early attempts
ZIG ZAG Railways Worldwide There are several ways of getting round the problem of sharp corners and steep gradients. One is by means of a Zig Zag, or Zigzag, (Double switchback in the Americas,), with reversing stations. Another is to use very tight curves if there is space. A variant using very tight curves is the helix or spiral, some of these go through mountains, others use bridges. For details of different types of solutions to sharp direction changes: Helixes, Tunnels, Spirals, and Other Unique Trackage The term V-switch was used where only one change of direction was made, or single switchback. If there was plenty of space a balloon loop was used as the preferred method of turning a whole train round to face back in the direction it had come from. Where there was less space a 'triangle' (UK) or 'wye' (USA - looks like the letter 'Y') was used.
CLASIG Colonial & Latin American Narrow Gauge Special Interest Group join Forum for all interested in the narrow gauge railways found outside Europe and North America - their history, equipment, operation and modeling.
Decauville
Decauville Railway Museum Netherlands links page ( extensive links for Decauville)
Denver Rails -Railroad Attraction Database interesting site with extensive database, pull down menus let you search for 24" gauge railway attractions
European Railway Server - many photographs
Feldbahn Seite - "Field railway", a site dedicated mainly to the 60cm (roughly equal to our 2') railroad equipment used in construction and in the trenches during WW1. It is in German and English and includes links to many European narrow gauge sites.
Frankfurter Feldbahnmuseum e.V. German museum site
Welkom bij de Stichting Rijssens Leemspoor
Heuser, Max Feldbahn site, many photos of 600mm locos
Island Railways north of Europe part of Narrow Gauge Heaven - out of the way railroads
Industrial
Industrial Narrow Gauge Railways web site has been built to record information regarding current industrial and commercial narrow gauge railways operating throughout Europe
Industrial Railway Society The Industrial Railway Society was founded in 1949 as the Birmingham Locomotive Club - Industrial Locomotive Information Section. The Society is the leading organization in the United Kingdom devoted to the study of all aspects, and all gauges, of privately owned industrial railways and locomotives, both at home and overseas. Collieries, opencast coal pits, steel works, gas works, peat bogs, Ministry of Defence depots, engineering works, docks, electric power stations, etc., are all covered by the Society. Also details of various railway preservation groups and their locomotives, etc.
Narrow Gauge & Industrial - commercial site providing narrow gauge books
Rumary's, Brian industrial railways of all over the world, but especially Germany & Austria, current status information of various railroad operations
Jackson & Sharp - car builders, built a number of the Maine twofooters passenger equipment
- Delaware State Archives
- Forgotten Delaware
Jackson & Sharp Company - builder of passenger cars, built a number of the Maine twofooters (link no longer operational)
- Hagely Library archives
- National Museum of American History archives
Koppel
cars collection of prototype photos, and listing of Kennebunk Models (HO)
that correspond to prototype
Moody Collection held by the Degolyer Collection at Southern Methodist University. I have not confirmed this, but the Degolyer has an extensive collection regarding US railroad, it was a link I book marked some time ago, when someone reported that this is where the Moody archives were..
The Everette Lee DeGolyer, Jr. Railroad Photographs encompass 15 filing cabinets of photographs and film negatives on most railroads in the U.S. The collection is arranged alphabetically by name of railroad and further subdivided by locomotive number or car type
Narrow Gauge & Industrial - commercial site providing narrow gauge books
Narrow Gauge Heaven a site dedicated to worldwide narrow gauge railways (formerly Narrow Gauge on the web). Extensive photo galleries.
Orion Models - has a very extensive listing of narrow gauge drawings that have been published
Park trains - site devoted to information about live steamers built to 2' gauge, that ran in amusement parks around the world.
Crown Metal Products 1975 catalog maker of Park engines additional info
Hurricane Agnes and the Loyalhanna Limited
Kelley, Ed On Track, Park Trains
SteamLocomotiveInfo listings
RailroadForum Photo Gallery
Railroad Gauge Width information about all gauges, covers much around 2'
RailroadData - large railroad links page, many categories, Over 5,000 railroad links
RailroadInfo RailroadInfo.com is your online resource for railroad news and information. Offering a total of 5 railroad websites, RailroadInfo.Com provides a wide variety of resources for railroaders, railfans, model railroaders and anyone interested in railroads.
Railserve Historical Societies & Preservation extensive links listings
Railway Preservation News Online magazine of railway history and preservation, one of the best organized links pages I have found, try his various databases!
Railway Technical Page information on how things work on the railroad
Steam in the Woods not a twofoot site, but lots of information on logging and geared locomotives
Surviving Steam News Flash
Tourist Railways listing is for anything rail related, good starting point if you are planning a holiday, and want to find railroads in the area.
Tramway & Light Railway Society
Prototype construction/restoration articles ( not always two foot but I think you will find the information presented on these page useful)
Carter Brothers Swing Motion truck construction, Society for the Preservation of Carter Railroad Resources
Florence & Cripple Creek coach #65 restoration, Stuhr Museum
Narrow Gauge Railway webring
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