Green Line Extension Lechmere to Medford

someone suggested unspiking, pulling tie out and turn it over and reinserting, then placing proper distance rail and plate ,and spiking. No plugs and epoxy.. Did sound very labor intensive.

But only one rail needs to be corrected.

Or they could purchase variable gauge trolleys

You guys ever see those trains in Europe that are able to drive through a special device that changes the gauge of the wheels while the train is moving, to go from one country to another! crazy!

Probably high maintenance.

Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad and Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Village have the narrow gauge equipment from Edaville. Just need to convert from coal burning steam to catenary-wire electric steam. What , two-foot gauge is too narrow?

Sorry for the necropost, I've just got to reading on the gauge issues here and didn't see answers.

MBTA Green line minimum gauge is 56 1/8". The GM stated that there were no locations other than the identified three that required a speed restriction. The main issue was that the tracks were out of project tolerance, which was 1/16". So anything 56 1/8" to 56 3/8" would be identified as out of tolerance and slated for repairs. That means a whole lot of SpikeFast and redrilling.

Again, sorry for coming out of the woodworks.