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  2. Electric Short Line Railway - Wikipedia

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    The Electric Short Line Railway and the affiliated Electric Short Line Railroad (later renamed the Electric Short Line Terminal Co.) were incorporated in late 1908. Construction started in 1909, but it took until 1913 for the first 3.2 miles (5.1 km) to be completed from 3rd Avenue and 7th Street North (construction was in various stages of ...

  3. Luce Line Trail - Wikipedia

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    The Electric Short Line Railway was a system that was built from 1917-1927. It extended from Minneapolis to Gluek, serving the small towns in between. The railway changed hands a few times before being abandoned throughout the late 1960s to early 1970s. The Luce Line State Trail was completed west of Plymouth after the line was abandoned in ...

  4. Trans-Amazonian Railway - Wikipedia

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    The Trans-Amazonian Railway is a proposed transcontinental railway through the Amazon Basin in Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru. The project was conceived in 2013 and announced in 2015 by Chinese and Bolivian leaders as part of a larger plan to create a Chinese-funded transportation network to support Bolivian imports and exports. [ 2 ]

  5. Category:Railway lines by country - Wikipedia

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    Railway lines in New Zealand (7 C, 120 P) Railway lines in Nigeria (4 P) Railway lines in North Macedonia (1 C, 2 P) Railway lines in Norway (28 C, 35 P) P.

  6. Minneapolis Great Northern Depot - Wikipedia

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    Passenger train service through the depot declined from a peak of 125 daily trains during World War II to just one route when Amtrak began operation in 1971—the Empire Builder. [3] Amtrak opted to consolidate all of its Twin Cities service at the Great Northern Depot, shuttering St. Paul's Union Depot.

  7. List of track gauges - Wikipedia

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    Haifa, Carmelit subway railway line - Funicular: England North Cliff Lift, Scarborough: 2,000 mm 6 ft 6 + 3 ⁄ 4 in: Scotland Cairngorm Mountain Railway - Funicular: 2,134 mm 7 ft: England 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 ...

  8. World map - Wikipedia

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    A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.

  9. Organisation for Co‑operation between Railways - Wikipedia

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    In contrast to Western European countries, railway links between OSShD member countries are characterized by long routes (8000 to 10,000 km), different and severe climatic zones, and two track gauge changes on a single route (1,520 mm (4 ft 11 + 27 ⁄ 32 in) and 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) ). Focusing on collective resolution of railway ...