Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1910 — Shortest Railroad. [ARTICLE]

Shortest Railroad.

The Eaton Hall railroad enjoys the distinction of being the smallest working railroad in Great Britain. The line runs across many of the jpark drives and over small streams, spanned by steel girders. Sometimes as many as 300 tons of coal a month is hauled by the miniature locomotives atid wagons. There are two engines, the largest of which has a tank capacity of 70 gallons, a boiler pressure of 175 pounds to the square inch and weighs four tons twelve hundredweight. There are 44 goods wagons, two brake vans, one carriage, one parcel car and one tool van. The passenger car runs on two four-wheel bogles, is 20 feet long, and has seatingl accommodations for 16 passengers. It has carried many a royal passenger.—Westminster Gazette.