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At the height of the railroad's operations in 1911, the DSS&A operated 623 miles (1,003 km) of track, of which 517 miles (832 km) were main line and 106 miles (171 km) were branch lines and trackage rights. The railroad operated 3,121 pieces of rolling stock, including 82 locomotives, 67 passenger cars, 35 cabooses, and 2,957 freight cars. [2]
The Portland Company was formed to build locomotives of this gauge for use on the local rail system. [3] The gauge was known as "Texas gauge" while required by Texas law until 1875, [4] and used by the New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad (NOO&GW) until 1872, and by the Texas and New Orleans Railroad until 1876. The New England ...
In 1886, the southern railroads agreed to coordinate changing gauge on all their tracks. After considerable debate and planning, most of the southern rail network was converted from 5 ft (1,524 mm) gauge to 4 ft 9 in (1,448 mm) gauge, then the standard of the Pennsylvania Railroad, over two days beginning on May 31, 1886. Over a period of 36 ...
Original definition of Brunel's broad gauge. This rail gauge was soon changed to 7 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in (2,140 mm) [105] to ease running in curves. 2,140 mm 7 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in: South Africa East London and Table Bay harbour railways England Brunel's Great Western Railway until converted to standard gauge by May 1892, See Great Western Railway The "gauge ...
Soo Line 6022, an EMD SD60, pulls a train through Wisconsin Dells on June 20, 2004. The present Soo Line Railroad was incorporated in Minnesota on October 19, 1949, as the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad, as part of the plan for reorganizing the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway (DSA) and
Canadian Northern Railway (until 1919) Headquarters: Duluth, Minnesota, United States, 1984-2012 Superior WI: Reporting mark: DWP, DWC: Locale: northern Minnesota: Dates of operation: 1901– Successor: Canadian National Railway, Wisconsin Central Ltd. (2012-present) Technical; Track gauge: 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
The Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway (DM&IR) (reporting mark DMIR), informally known as the Missabe Road, [1] was a railroad operating in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin that used to haul iron ore and later taconite to the Great Lakes ports of Duluth and Two Harbors, Minnesota.
The railroad of the Duluth & Northeastern Railroad Company, hereinafter called the carrier, is a single-track standard-gauge steam railroad, located in northeastern Minnesota. The main line extends from Cloquet northeasterly to Hornby, 58.492 miles, and a branch line extends from Brevator Junction to Brevator, 4.440 miles, aggregating 62.932 ...