patrick Posted June 1, 2023 Share Posted June 1, 2023 Maureen and I are currently on vacation in St. Johns Newfoundland. The island province once had an extensive three foot six inch guage railway system which at its peak was over 900 miles in length. The system interchanged with parent Canadian National via train ferries at Port Aux Basques on the west side of the island where standard guage cars from the mainland had their trucks exchanged for narrow guage ones to continue their journey. Despite modernization in the seventies, mainly involving the introduction of container service the line was closed completely in 1988 after the completion of the TransCanada Highway and was completely ripped up by the end of 1990. The old passenger depot at St John's is now a railway museum but was unfortunately not yet open for the season but a locomotive, a NL110 built by GM, a passenger car and mail car are on display outside. There are many videos of this fascinating railway in operation on YouTube. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick Posted June 1, 2023 Author Share Posted June 1, 2023 What's a vacation without a souvenir........ 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 I had thought it was 3ft gauge.....no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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