Triple Heading 3 Pacifics

[@LukeLovesTrains-Mr.RailYard]

Love this actually triple header

[@sandwichman8u]

that's 7 1/2" right and it's sit on, why? down here in Australia we 7 1/4" sit in steamers

[@chrissheroes6687]

when live steam first came to the states after WW2 it was in 7 1/4 and it still is were it first occured in the Northeastern US, but for some Reason (my personal preference a bad phone connection) when it started on the west coast they did it in 7 1/2, by the time they realized the discrepancy it was too late since everyone had sunk so much time and money into their equipment to be able to change now, resulting in the west and south east of the US being 7 1/2 and the North East being 7 1/4, note sure what the territories and non-continues states

[@twatson703]

Walt Disney started 7.5" gauge on the west coast long before WW-2. There are lots of pictures of his railroad during the 1920s floating around. The full size railroads historically played the same game, each attempting to build a monopoly. Only when they needed to connect together were the railroads finally forced into cooperative standards. I believe the areas you mentioned are the only 7.5" gauge, that most of the rest of the world is 7.25" gauge. When the Australians bring trains to Train Mountain, they re-gauge them. If one looks back to the time periods when all this started, it can probably be blamed on a lack of communications, and the majority of that is from the inability to communicate in a timely manner.

[@calitrainman]

Next time hook all the cars in the yard up and make them work :)

[@jacksalvin364]

3 Famous 4-6-2s.