Re: Narrow Gauge Railroad Question
Author: SP 0-6-0
Date: 08-15-2017 - 20:50
Don B Wrote:
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> When was the Narrow Gauge Railroad torn out that
> started in Colfax, California?
Don,
Websites and comments online all say that the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad was sold for scrap in 1942.
Here is the Wikipedia entry on the railroad:
"With the outbreak of World War II, they sold it in 1942 for $251,000 to Dulian Steel Products Company..."
(Source: Kneiss, Gilbert H. (1946). Bonanza Railroads. Stanford Univ. Press. p. 170.)