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[quote user="Railway Man"] [quote user="Bucyrus"]But standard gauging the line would impose the additional cost of a whole new roadbed structure, which would eliminate tunnels, bridges, sharp curves, steep grades, etc. in the course of attaining modern standard gauge specifications.  If this were done, would sufficient mining come on line quick enough to justify the investment?   [/quote]  How do you know that it would require a whole new roadbed or any aspect of this? [quote] I have not read this part of the document, but how does it reconcile the replacement of the current WP&Y with a modern standard gauge freight railroad; against the effect it would have on the tourism passenger market?[/quote] Perhaps it has zero effect.  The average cruise ship passenger knows gauge from anything? RWM [/quote] I am just guessing that it would require lots of revisions.  It seems to me that the narrow gauge concept is fundamentally intended to shoehorn track into places that were too tight for standard gauge, especially in mountainous terrain where the physical challenge of building a railroad would be the greatest.  So I just figured that the WP&Y was built right up to the limit of curvature, clearances, and etc. for 3-foot-gauge, and those limits would have to be increased in order to become standard gauge.   <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> I have never ridden the line, so I tend to visualize it from the photos, leaving the impression that the whole line is curves, tunnels, and trestles.  But maybe that is just a small part of it, and the rest is wide-open territory where a standard gauge track could easily be substituted for narrow gauge.   Regarding the standard gauging having an effect on the tourist riders, I guess it depends on why they are riding the train.  Perhaps most of them are only interested in the scenery and don’t care what the railroad looks like.  As a tourist, I would not care about the operating efficiency of the railroad, but would rather see a railroad that seemed to be dramatically challenged by the terrain.
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