From: gl4317@yahoo.com   
      
   In article , John Levine    
   wrote:   
      
   > I would think so.  The right of way is already there.  In some places   
   > they'd have to widen it, but for the most part, they'd just lay new   
   > track.   
      
      
   Just widening it may not be necessary.  This isn't a typical USA style   
   narrow gauge line but was built as a national main line.  There are   
   meter gauge lines out there (South America) operating ex-Conrail and BN   
   locomotives that essentially just had meter gauge trucks put under them.   
      
   The Kenya & Uganda Railways had a few 4-8-4+4-8-4 Beyer-Garratt   
   locomotives.  They were not huge by standard gauge standards, but at 186   
   tons they were larger than a fair number of standard gauge locomotives   
   in the UK.   
      
   If you look at the photos of the locomotives they had on the East   
   African Railways;   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:5907-Mount-Kinangop.jpg   
   (this is a 4-8-2+2-8-4)   
   they appear to be wide enough to be nearly a standard gauge locomotive.   
      
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