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Mount Gretna Narrow Gauge Railway (defunct) Tipton Creek Railroad (located in DelGrosso's Amusement Park) (operating) Zephyr Railroad (located in Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom) (separate 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge railway named Cedar Creek Cannonball also present) (operating) Texas: Busch Gardens Houston (defunct)
A BL 9.2-inch howitzer with shells lined up on the ground recently delivered from the trench railway in the foreground during World War I.. Two foot and 600 mm gauge railways are narrow gauge railways with track gauges of 2 ft (610 mm) and 600 mm (1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in), respectively.
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 ...
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.
See Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark: 686 mm: 2 ft 3 in: See List of 2 ft 3 in gauge railways: 693 mm: 2 ft 3 + 9 ⁄ 32 in: Sweden: 28 Swedish inches. [28] Several railways. 700 mm 2 ft 3 + 9 ⁄ 16 in: Denmark See Narrow-gauge railways in Denmark and Narrow-gauge railways in Europe. Common for sugar beet or sugar cane railways and peat railways.
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).
In railway terminology, track gauge indicates the distance between the inside edges of the running rails. Standard gauge is defined as 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in), and narrow gauge as any gauge less than that distance.
Narrow 600 mm: 600 mm (1 ft 11 + 5 ... and separate 2 ft (610 mm) gauge railway named Casey Jr. Circus Train also present; and separate 3 ft (914 mm) ...