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'Category:Portable Railways' and 'Decauville Portable Railway System' info and links added
[[File:Bolan Pass Railway Construction.jpg|thumb|Bolan Pass Railway Construction - early 1880's using Elephants to transport the Decauville railway components]]
Work restarted shortly after using by rapidly laying a rail track in the bed of the river Bolan and finally a steam locomotive rolled into [[Quetta]] in August of 1886. The 1885 account given in Practical Machinist <ref name=prac.mac>[http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/afghanistan/elephants-carrying-locomotives-through-the-bolan-pass/ "Elephants carrying locomotives through the Bolan Pass" – ‘Scientific American’, 15 August 1885; Posted 28 March 2010]; Retrieved 5 Dec 2016</ref> states ‘This "This railroad is of the [[Decauville systemPortable Railway System|'Decauville System']], formed in sections of small steel rails, which can be put down or taken up very quickly.... the locomotive made in two parts, the larger of which weighed on 3,978 pounds, the greatest weight that an elephant can carry”<ref name=prac.mac/>.
[[Francis Langford O'Callaghan]], posted from the [[State Railways]], was ‘Engineer in Chief’ for a number of demanding railway projects, surveys and constructions on India's north-west frontier .. including.. the Bolan line through the Bolan Pass to Quetta, 1885-86" <ref>[http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/bdoceigbai.58347.457 Institution of Civil Engineers "Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland - O'Callaghan, Francis Langford "]; Retrieved on 13 Jul 2016</ref>.
[[Category:Railway Constructions]]
[[Category:State Railways]]
[[Category:Portable Railways]]
