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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 ...
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.
W. Wales West Light Railway. Wild Kingdom Train Zoo. Wiscasset and Quebec Railroad. Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway. Categories: 2 ft gauge railways. Narrow gauge railroads in the United States.
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.
2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge railways are narrow gauge railways with track gauge of 2 ft 6 in (762 mm). This type of rail was promoted especially in the colonies of the British Empire during the second half of the nineteenth century by Thomas Hall and Everard Calthrop.
Narrow-gauge railroads in the United States. Heritage railway. 2 ft gauge railroads in the United States. 2 ft 6 in gauge railways in the United Kingdom. 3 ft gauge railroads in the United States. Large amusement railways. Three foot six inch gauge railways in the United States.
The Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway.The line was operated as a for-profit company from 1895 until 1933 between the Maine towns of Wiscasset, Albion, and Winslow, but was abandoned in 1936.