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Cass Scenic Railway, West Virginia, United States: 1901: Former logging railway, steepest non-electrified adhesion railway 1 in 9 (11%) or 1 in 10 (10%) Estrada de Ferro Campos do Jordão, Brazil: 22 existing railways merged and nationalised in 1953 1 in 9.5 (10.5%) Roaring Camp & Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad, California, United States: 1963
GIRONA - NARROW-GAUGE RAILWAY ROUTE I - This 57-km route crosses three regions and twelve towns, following the valleys of the Fluvià, Brugent and Ter rivers. The Narrow-Gauge Railway Route descends smoothly from Olot (440 m) to Girona (70 m). GIRONA - NARROW-GAUGE RAILWAY ROUTE II - The Narrow-Gauge Railway Route stretches out 39.7 km.
The building of a high-speed line to replace a lower-speed line is another possibility; one example of this is the New Lower Inn Valley railway in Austria. A "railroad bypass" is generally synonymous with a railroad cutoff, although there are examples, such as with the Berlin Outer Ring Railway in Germany, where the bypass route was built more ...
West Side and Cherry Valley Railroad No. 7. In 1968, Frank Cottle leased the lower end of the railroad from Pickering Lumber and opened the Westside and Cherry Valley Railroad as a tourist attraction. He restored locomotives #12 and #15 to run trains on tracks laid on the old mill site.
Carolina Valley Railway: ACL/ N&W: 1907 1909 Piedmont Railway: Carolina and Yadkin River Railway: ACL/ N&W: 1912 1923 High Point, Thomasville and Denton Railroad: Carthage Railroad: 1886 1920 Randolph and Cumberland Railway: Carthage and Pinehurst Railroad: NS: 1907 1922 N/A Carthage and Western Railroad: 1893 Cashie and Chowan Railroad and ...
The local heritage railway, the Churnet Valley Railway (CVR), who already operate the line between Leek Brook and Kingsley and Froghall arranged access over the branch line with Moorland and City Railways and in 2011 started operating trains to Caldon Low exchange sidings. In 2014 MCR started the process to upgrade the track, as the condition ...
Randolph Station became a contributing property to the Depot Square Historic District since 1975. In the 1990s, local leaders began lobbying Amtrak to make Randolph a new railroad stop, even going so far as to rebuild the original VCRR freight depot into a bus depot for Randolph Stagecoach Transportation, now Tri-Valley Transit.
To the west of Spokane, WA (at Latah Jct, as of June 1973 [11] to the present day [12]), the line splits into two main routes, [12] one using mostly the old Great Northern Railway route directly to Seattle, WA, and the other using mainly the former Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway route, but also a large section of the former Northern ...