"Gary Stoltman" <stopan@optonline.net> schrieb:
Wilfried:
Thank you very much for this lead. At this time in the USA, there were many
small independently owned railroads that used different gauge track. This
wasn't corrected until the country's Civil War. 1. Are any list members
aware if that sort of gauge problem existed in the NW German states
and/or between that area and the Netherlands & Belgium.
2. Were the railroads state owned? I have seen the French railroads of that
time referred to as, "the state railroads," therefore leading me to
believe that all French railroads operated with one gauge of track.
Hallo Gary,
there was no gauge problem in that area, neither in Germany, nor in/between the Netherlands, Belgium and France. All have the Standard-gauge of 1435 mm.
But at that time there existed numerous railroad companies, most of them private and not state owned. And between the different companys often were no direct connections (there were for example different stations in many cities). Also one could not buy a through ticket. So it was quite difficult to travel over a long distance.
Regards
Wilfried