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Viewliner Train of Tomorrow (located in Disneyland) (separate 3 ft (914 mm) gauge railway named Disneyland Railroad, separate 3 ft (914 mm) gauge railway named Main Street Vehicles, and separate 2 ft (610 mm) gauge railway named Casey Jr. Circus Train also present; and separate 3 ft (914 mm) gauge railway named Jolly Trolley previously present ...
Casey Jr. Circus Train (located in Disneyland) (separate 3 ft (914 mm) gauge railway named Disneyland Railroad and separate 3 ft (914 mm) gauge railway named Main Street Vehicles also present; and separate 3 ft (914 mm) gauge railway named Jolly Trolley, separate 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge railway named Mine Train Through Nature's Wonderland, and ...
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 .
Pages in category "2 ft 6 in gauge railways in the United States" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Some railways, primarily in the northeast, used standard gauge of 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 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 northern railroads that were not standard-gauge tended to be narrow-gauge.
This is a category for all narrow gauge railways built with a track gauge of 2 ft 6 in (762 mm). Similar gauges are in categories 760 mm ( 2 ft 5 + 15 ⁄ 16 in ) and 750 mm ( 2 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in )
The 6E1 locomotive of the 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) South African Railways are 9 feet 6 inches (2.9 m) wide. A large numbers of railways using the 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) gauge used the same rolling stock plans, which were 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) wide.
See 750 mm gauge railways: 760 mm: 2 ft 5 + 15 ⁄ 16 in: Bulgaria: Origin: 1 ⁄ 2 Austrian fathom See Bosnian gauge. Septemvri - Dobriniste narrow railway. 762 mm: 2 ft 6 in: See 2 ft 6 in gauge railways: 765 mm: 2 ft 6 + 1 ⁄ 8 in: DR Congo: Matadi–Kinshasa Railway, converted to 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) 1925–1931. [70] 775 mm: 2 ft 6 + 1 ...