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Now this photo, and some others, were taken at the Rabun Gap Railroad Museum in Rabun Gap, GA. This was an unexpected trip we took while in GA, and although we didn't spend a whole lot of time there nor do very much, it was just about as awesome as SERM. Probably because I'm a narrow gauger at heart and the Director/Curator of the museum has built a small, but extensive 2ft gauge railroad on the property.
The equipment roster features a coach/private car, flat car, bobber caboose, 2-4-4 "Forney" type locomotive mock up (it's actually diesel powered), as well as a 2ft gauge trolley and a golf cart modified into an motor car/inspection car.
Once I saw this little caboose I fell in love INSTANTLY with it. I squeed... loudly... You can ask
cnw8486, he was there with me.
I wanted to take the cute little thing home with me! But he said "It wouldn't fit in the trunk". I wanted to challenge that statement.
Anyway, comment if you fave please.
The equipment roster features a coach/private car, flat car, bobber caboose, 2-4-4 "Forney" type locomotive mock up (it's actually diesel powered), as well as a 2ft gauge trolley and a golf cart modified into an motor car/inspection car.
Once I saw this little caboose I fell in love INSTANTLY with it. I squeed... loudly... You can ask
cnw8486, he was there with me. I wanted to take the cute little thing home with me! But he said "It wouldn't fit in the trunk". I wanted to challenge that statement.
Anyway, comment if you fave please.
Category Photography / Miscellaneous
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Size 1280 x 960px
File Size 205.9 kB
Restoration? This caboose was home built by the curator of the museum! The whole thing was fabricated! However I didn't have a tape measure and note pad on me when we went. (my own fault for not thinking about it) however it's a little difficult to just hop on over there to get measurements when this museum is 400 miles away from where I am at present. ^^:
something about 2 foot gauge is "just right" for the kind of world i want to live in. solar electric rather then steam, and future rather then past, for me. in a furrys rebuilding the world the day after it ended kind of scenario. or just plain a more sensible alternative to what the unwashed hooman masses seem to have contented themselves with today. i just, yah, sqwee, the kind of how wonderful such a world would be like, with all the other elements i try to depict. there is, i don't know if you're familiar with it, but waldenburg in switzerland has an actual 30" gauge modern transit system, that started with steam over a hundred, closer to 150 i think, years ago. that they never abondond, just updated over the years. gauges between 15" and 30" for "just big enough to ride in. and from about six inches on up to 12 or so, to be just big enough to ride on. as if anyplace that has cars now, would ever be too small for two footers instead.
sadly this museum is now closed and most of the artifacts are now at Cornelia and the raburn county historical society in clayton ga.
presently the last remaining trackage of the irl tallulah falls is threatened by looming plans to build an amphitheater on the site of the surviving wye. I've made my 2nd trip out there to document the final remains of the fabled mountain shortline.
idk what's become of the scratch built stuff
presently the last remaining trackage of the irl tallulah falls is threatened by looming plans to build an amphitheater on the site of the surviving wye. I've made my 2nd trip out there to document the final remains of the fabled mountain shortline.
idk what's become of the scratch built stuff
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