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Pages in category "Narrow gauge railroads in Texas" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
In South America, the Central Railway of Brazil ordered 17 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge 2-10-4 locomotives, 10 from Baldwin, which were delivered in 1940, and another seven from the American Locomotive Company, which were delivered in 1947.
Texas Western Narrow Gauge Railway: 1875 1879 Texas Western Railway: First narrow-gauge railroad chartered in Texas Timpson and Henderson Railway: 1909 1923 N/A Timpson and Northwestern Railway: 1901 1909 Timpson and Henderson Railway: Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway: CB&Q/ RI: 1902 1930 Burlington – Rock Island Railroad: Trinity, Cameron ...
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The narrow-gauge (30 inches [2]) St. Kitts Scenic Railway circles the island and offers passenger service from its headquarters near the airport, although the service is geared more for tourists than as day-to-day transportation for residents. Built between 1912 and 1926 to haul sugar cane from farms to the sugar factory in Basseterre, since ...
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge. Most narrow-gauge railways are between 600 mm ( 1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in ) and 1,067 mm ( 3 ft 6 in ).
This network at one time had over 770 km of railway in operation, but only about 13 km remain in operation as a steam powered tourist railway. Other small narrow-gauge lines include the Rio de Janeiro streetcar (Bonde de Santa Teresa), with approximately 13 km of 1,100 mm (3 ft 7 + 5 ⁄ 16 in) gauge, and a very short industrial railway near ...
The Oahu Railway and Land Company was the largest narrow-gauge class-one common-carrier railway in the US (at the time of its dissolution in 1947), and the only US narrow-gauge railroad to use signals. The OR&L used Automatic Block Signals, or ABS on their double track mainline between Honolulu and Waipahu, a total of 12.9 miles (20.8 km), and ...