Comments on: Narrow gauge in Korea: the Inchon – Suwon – Yeoju line https://spanjersberg.net/2013/01/20/narrow-gauge-in-korea-the-inchon-suwon-%e2%80%93-yeoju-line/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=narrow-gauge-in-korea-the-inchon-suwon-%25e2%2580%2593-yeoju-line Spanjersberg.net Sat, 07 Apr 2018 03:50:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Rick Taylor https://spanjersberg.net/2013/01/20/narrow-gauge-in-korea-the-inchon-suwon-%e2%80%93-yeoju-line/comment-page-1/#comment-319101 Sat, 07 Apr 2018 03:50:26 +0000 http://www.spanjersberg.net/?p=158#comment-319101 This is great information. I am going to check out the books referenced. I first came to Korea in 1997 and my (older) guidebook referenced the Suwon-Incheon narrow gauge line you wrote about. When I went to Suwon to ride it, they told me it had stopped operating a couple of years earlier, so I did not get to experience it. I was pretty disappointed. Since then I have developed an interest in older Korean locomotives. You can check out what I have on my blog: https://koreanrails.blogspot.kr/ . Admittedly it is not much, but I have collected quite a few links in my research. Also, I am building a model railroad, modeling Korean railways in the 1970’s. I am still in Korea all these years later. Another book if you are interested in Korean railroads is “The Gloved Hand” by M.C. Wikman. It has a couple of chapters on experiences of an American working with Korean locomotives. Thanks for sharing the interesting information!

]]> By: robert moeller https://spanjersberg.net/2013/01/20/narrow-gauge-in-korea-the-inchon-suwon-%e2%80%93-yeoju-line/comment-page-1/#comment-409 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:17:51 +0000 http://www.spanjersberg.net/?p=158#comment-409 While a teacher at Seoul Foreign School, I took my students on this railway in the mid 1970s. There was steam then and the kids got to push the engine on the turntable in Inchon for the return trip to Suwon. While this railroad was built by the Japanese to exploit Korea’s resources, it does run on beautiful shoreline and I am glad that it is still going even if it is now standard gauge and there is no steam.

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