[WWI] WW1 Narrow Gauge train lines in France - World War OneRailroads - chemin de fer

[Matt Bittner]

<chuckle>  Ah, Karen.  Didn't you borrow my book at one time? ;-)

The U.S. of A. was a large part of the 60cm/2.5' gauge lines in France.  
The engines used were primarily Baldwin Gas Mechanicals, but others were 
used as well.

While modeling that gauge is largest in Europe (009 gauge) there are a 
few of us interested in HO "over here" (HOn30").  Unfortunately the one 
kit of the Baldwin is long out of production - and unfortunately at the 
time I had no money for it - but I keep hoping someone else will release 
either a conversion, or an RTR (ready-to-run) in HO for it.

<sigh>


Matt Bittner


On 6/29/2010 9:54 PM, Karen Rychlewski wrote:
> Indeed, it happened; and it's fairly well documented.
>
> For starters,try:
> http://www.worldwar1.com/france/vsacree.htm
>
> A short quote from the page:
> "The myth is that the Road alone, later to be called the "Vole Sacree" 
> exclusively supplied Verdun during the German onslaught in 1916. 
> Reality is that during the Spring of 1916 it was indeed the" Vole 
> Sacree" road which carried about 78 % of the traffic. The rest ( about 
> 22 % ) was carried by a metric gauge railway paralleling the "Vole 
> Sacree" : the" Chemin de Fer Meusien" However, after June 1916, a 
> newly built standard gauge railway line took over, thus relegating 
> the" Vole Sacree" to carrying mostly light trucks and motor car traffic."
>
> *Resicast* makes kits of Ford Model Ts converted to NG.
>
> I hope Bittner chimes in here as I know he has reference books on NGRR 
> in WWI
>
> Karen
>