European Logging 1900’s

[billmart]

That Widegren wooden railroad system is fascinating.  I've seen many photos of railroads that used logs or dressed timbers for tracks, but none that used such a novel method for keeping the wheels on the "rails."

Bill M.

[Terry Harper]

Whats interesting to me from a technical standpoint is that the wheels are solid rubber. The letters refer to drawings put unfortunatly those have disapeared over the last
90 years. However there are some specifications given in the following letter - The surviving originals are carbon copies thus the dark background.

[mad gerald]

G'day all,

regarding the here mentioned Widegren wooden railroad system I'd like to add another railroad on wooden rails I came across recently (and accidentally):

The so-called Cecilwood Vest Poket Railroad in Fishkill, NY, USA .. a miniature system (14" gauge line) with 2 miles of track, built almost entirely from discarded lumber and metal, running on wooden tracks with strap-iron reinforcement:

http://carendt.us/scrapbook/page105a/index.html scroll to 1920'S PRIVATE RR USED RECYCLED MATERIALS TO 'WORK THE FARM' approx. in the middle of the website

or have a look at POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY December, 1923 (pages 40 and 41)
http://books.google.de/books?id=0ioDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA2&dq=POPULAR%20SCIENCE%20MONTHLY%20December%2C%201923&hl=de&pg=PA40#v=onepage&q=fishkill&f=false

Cheers