page_title: Railway of the Prince Imperial
section_title: Historic documents
hierarchical_section_title: Railway of the Prince Imperial / Historic documents
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Die Eisenbahn des kaiserlichen Prinzen im Park von Schloss Saint-Cloud; Holzstich nach Fotografie
context_page_description: The railway of the Prince Imperial was the first documented model railway in the world.
context_section_description: The article in Le Monde Illustré is the only known description of the railway of the Prince Imperial. The illustration which shows the complete set-up was a woodcut after a photograph by the Parisian photographer Charles-Louis Michelez. The photograph was reproduced by Gustav Reder in 1970. He estimated the gauge to be approximately 20 cm (8 in), while Le Monde Illustré gave a width of about 50 cm (20 in) for the locomotive.
  It is not known who built the track and the rolling stock, or for how long the railway was used and kept in the park.
caption: Woodcut by E. Grangile from a photograph by Charles-Louis Michelez, Le Monde Illustré, 8 October 1859
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