Some Norwegian Trains

[steinjr]

wow, 35 miles is a great chunk of track for a museum! I can only think of a handful of American tourist/heritage lines of that scale...Cumbras & Toltec, Durango & Silverton, White Pass & Yukon, and perhaps the new ones out of Alamosa.

Nice to see some Norwegian railroads!

Alas - only 2 1/2 miles of the narrow gauge railroad is in service, and it doesn't look like any more will be put into service anytime soon - the old right of way has mostly been put into use for other purposes. Still - it is a nice little trip - from the depot to a park at the midway point - right next to the normal gauge mainline, and then up to the endpoint at the end of a field, where the train is met by horses and sleds (in wintertime) or horses and carts (in summertime). I have never taken the sled/cart ride - much more fun to watch the engine run around the train and get ready to back down the hill pulling the cars back to the original starting point, after everybody has reboarded the train

Longest museum railroad in Norway is Kroderbanen - which is about 16 miles of normal gauge track - about an hour northwest of Oslo. Trivia factoid: their signature song is a Norwegian version of "Take the A-train".

Grin,
Stein