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Track gauge. A junction on the underground freight railway network built by the defunct Chicago Tunnel Company. A steam train on a revived segment of the Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad in Maine. A Crown Metal Products -built train on Hersheypark's Dry Gulch Railroad in Pennsylvania in 1966. A list of 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge railways ...
Track gauge. Two foot and 600 mm gauge railways are narrow gauge railways with track gauges of 2 ft (610 mm) and 600 mm (1 ft 115⁄8 in), respectively. Railways with similar, less common track gauges, such as 1 ft 113⁄4 in (603 mm) and 1 ft 111⁄2 in (597 mm), are grouped with 2 ft and 600 mm gauge railways.
Pages in category "2 ft gauge locomotives" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. ... South African Class NG10 4-6-2; South African NG 0-4-0T; T.
The Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad (SR&RL) was a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge common carrier railroad that operated approximately 112 miles (180 km) of track in Franklin County, Maine. The former equipment from the SR&RL continues to operate in the present day on a revived, short segment of the railway in Phillips, Maine.
Similar gauges. Railways of 700 mm ( 2 ft 3⁄16 in) gauge are known in Latvia and Romania and several Cuban sugar cane railways. [ 19] Other British railways of similar, but not identical, gauge were: Snailbeach District Railways, 2 ft 4 in ( 711 mm) gauge. Welbeck Colliery, Nottinghamshire, 2 ft 4 in ( 711 mm) gauge, [ 20] which closed in 2010.
Category:2 ft gauge railways. Category. : 2 ft gauge railways. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2 ft gauge railways. This is a category for all narrow gauge railways built with a track gauge of 2 ft ( 610 mm ). Similar gauges are in categories 1 ft 11+3⁄4 in ( 603 mm), 600 mm ( 1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) and 1 ft 11+1⁄2 in ( 597 mm) .
After World War II he acquired two former Monson Railroad locomotives and some surviving cars from the defunct Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad in Maine. This equipment ran on 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge tracks, as opposed to the more common 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge in the western United States. Atwood purchased the equipment for use on ...
[2] The locomotive was used on the Timber Supply Department tramway at Pennal. Between 1918 and 1920 part of the 2 ft (610 mm) gauge tramway connecting to the Cwm Ebol quarry was extended to serve the timber felling operations at Cwm Dwr, two miles north of the Pennal. [1] 774 worked on this line during 1919 and early 1920. [3]