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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 ...
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.
Pages in category "Narrow gauge railroads in Michigan" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1880–89) T.
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 ...
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.
Grand Rapids and Saginaw Railroad. Highland Park Railway. Holland and Lake Michigan Railway. Houghton County Traction Company. Inter-Urban Railway. Jackson and Ann Arbor Railway. Jackson and Battle Creek Traction Company. Jackson Street Railway. Jackson and Suburban Traction Company.
The Harbor Springs Railway was a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge railway built at Harbor Springs, Michigan on Little Traverse Bay on Lake Michigan. It was nicknamed the Hemlock Central because of the great numbers of hemlock trees growing in the area. The railway was chartered by Ephraim Shay, the inventor of the Shay locomotive, on February 2 ...
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Detroit and Mackinac Railway (reporting marks D&M, DM), informally known as the "Turtle Line", was a railroad in the northeastern part of the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The railroad had its main offices and shops in Tawas City with its main line running from Bay City north to ...