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Hesston Steam Museum (dual-gauge lines with 3 ft (914 mm) gauge track also present) (separate 14 in (356 mm) gauge railway and separate 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (190.5 mm) gauge railway also present) (operating) Kentucky: Richwood Tahoe Railroad (operating) Louisiana: Bayou Le Zoo Choo Choo (located in Alexandria Zoological Park) (operating) Maine
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.
Track gauge. Originally, various track gauges were used in the United States. Some railways, primarily in the northeast, used standard gauge of 4 ft 8⁄ in (1,435 mm); others used gauges ranging from 2 ft (610 mm) to 6 ft (1,829 mm). As a general rule, southern railroads were built to one or another broad gauge, mostly 5 ft (1,524 mm), while ...
The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad in Portland, Maine. In New England, the first narrow-gauge common-carrier railroad was the Billerica and Bedford Railroad, which ran from North Billerica to Bedford in Middlesex County, Massachusetts from 1877 to 1878. There were extensive 2 ft (610 mm) gauge lines in the Maine forests early in the 20th century.
The South Central Florida Express, Inc. (reporting mark SCXF) (originally known as the South Central Florida Railroad (reporting mark SCFE)) is a common carrier shortline railroad in southern Florida run by U.S. Sugar Corporation. Its trains operate from Sebring to Fort Pierce via Clewiston around the southern perimeter of Lake Okeechobee, and ...
Georgia and Florida Railway: Georgia and Florida Railroad: GFRR 1995 1999 Georgia and Florida RailNet: Georgia and Florida Railroad: G&F G&F 1926 1951 Valdosta Southern Railroad: Georgia and Florida Railway: G&F G&F 1906 1926 Georgia and Florida Railroad: Georgia, Florida and Alabama Railroad: GF&A SAL: 1927 1974 Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
Cedar Creek Cannonball (located in Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom) (separate 2 ft (610 mm) gauge railway named Zephyr Railroad also present) (operating) Shay Railroad (located at the Rough and Tumble Engineers Historical Association) (separate 15 in (381 mm) gauge railway named Little Toot Railroad also present) (operating)
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.