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Sumner Heights And Hazelwood Valley Railroad
The Sumner Heights and Hazelwood Valley Railroad was built as an experimental minimum gauge railway near Boston in 1875. Route and its construction The Sumner Heights and Hazelwood Valley Railroad and Vicinity. It was situated in the town of Hyde Park, Boston, Hyde Park, from Boston, on the line of the Boston and Providence Railroad. It was projected and built by George E. Mansfield as an experiment, and completed August 1875. It claimed to have been the narrowest gauge railroad in the world with a gauge of only between the rails.J.W. und J.S. Moulton: :File:Takes the narrow gauge (NYPL b11707500-G90F222 014B) (cropped).tiff, New Series, American Views: ''Sumner Heights and Hazelwood Valley Railroad and Vicinity.'' The line started from the summit of a small hill just back of the Hazelwood station, on the Providence Railroad, and after winding round the hill by sharp curves, came down through Mr. Mansfield's back yard, and shot by an apparently very dangerous curve obliquely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Station Switch And Signal (NYPL B11707500-G90F222 004F) Cropped
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