In real life the Little River Railroad was standard Gauge, Tom is cheating in order to use easily available equipment.
But when driving my family down the ridiculously curvy road from Elkmont to Townsend, when I notified my family that this road was built directly on the roadbed,Emily , Forrester, and Jennifer all said this can't have been standard gauge, the curves are way to tight. The youngest Joey, didn't say anything, but he had the biggest grin on his face rounding those tight curves, he was probably thinking "This guy is trying to kill me."
But when driving my family down the ridiculously curvy road from Elkmont to Townsend, when I notified my family that this road was built directly on the roadbed,Emily , Forrester, and Jennifer all said this can't have been standard gauge, the curves are way to tight. The youngest Joey, didn't say anything, but he had the biggest grin on his face rounding those tight curves, he was probably thinking "This guy is trying to kill me."