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Pages in category "Narrow gauge railroads in Indiana" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City Railroad
American Narrow Gauge Railroads. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2369-9. Indiana Department of Transportation: 2008 Indiana Railroad Map; Association of American Railroads: Railroads in Indiana; Richard S. Simons and Francis Haywood Parker, Railroads of Indiana, Indiana University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-253-33351-2
The Oahu Railway and Land Company was the largest narrow-gauge class-one common-carrier railway in the US (at the time of its dissolution in 1947), and the only US narrow-gauge railroad to use signals. The OR&L used Automatic Block Signals, or ABS on their double track mainline between Honolulu and Waipahu, a total of 12.9 miles (20.8 km), and ...
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[2] [1] The TD&B wished to reach Ironton, which was a rail- and ingot-producing town, [1] In 1881, the TD&B reached an agreement with the Iron Railroad to dual-gauge a segment of its line by laying a rail spaced to 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge in-between the Iron Railroad's existing track. Both railroads merged later that same year, retaining the ...
Narrow-gauge railroads of various sizes existed across the US, especially during the late 1800s, with the most popular gauge being 3 ft gauge. [1] [2] Some of the more famous 3 ft gauge railroad networks in the US were based in California, Colorado, and Hawaii. These narrow-gauge lines were easier to build than standard gauge and cost ...
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A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge. Most narrow-gauge railways are between 600 mm ( 1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in ) and 1,067 mm ( 3 ft 6 in ).