Question re 3-1/2" & 4 3/4" gauge garden locos?

[rrinker]

I guess after the hassle of charging a car battery (you'd need something that big for those scales because you ride on them, not run alongside), it would be easier to just use a small gas engine. One of the members of the locla club as a small diesel switcher he brings to the open houses, it has about a 5hp horizontal shaft gas engine in it. The big 15" gauge diesel has, or had, a Ford Model A motor in it. The steamers are actual live steamers, naturally.

--Randy