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99 Steam Train (located in Six Flags Magic Mountain) (separate 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) gauge railway named Orient Express also present and separate 3 ft (914 mm) gauge railway named Grand Centennial Excursion Railroad previously present) (defunct - park and first separate railway still operating)
Pages in category "2 ft gauge locomotives" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. ... Polar Bear (steam locomotive) Q. Queensland Railways DH ...
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. Railways with similar, less common track gauges, such as 1 ft 11 + 3 ⁄ 4 in ( 603 mm ) and 1 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ( 597 mm ), are grouped with 2 ft and 600 mm gauge railways.
The principal 2-6-2T locomotives which were built for the 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge system of the Victorian Railways (VR), are the now famous "Puffing Billy" engines. Two of these little locomotives arrived from Baldwin Locomotive works in 1898 and a total of seventeen saw service throughout the state on the various narrow gauge timber ...
2 ft 6 in (762 mm) built for the Bowaters Paper Railway in Kent. This was last narrow gauge steam locomotive built for industrial service in the UK. [17] Welsh Highland Railway: Gelert 3050 1953 0-4-2T 2 ft (610 mm) built for the Rustenburg Platinum Mines in South Africa. Bodmin and Wenford Railway: Alfred: 3058 1953 0-4-0ST 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ...
The Baldwin locomotives featured lagged smokeboxes [3] and were the only 2 ft (610 mm) gauge 4-4-0 s ever operated in North America (discounting Crown Metal Products locomotives); although Baldwin built a 600 mm (1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) gauge 4-4-0 for the Ferrocarril de Tacubaya of Mexico City in 1897. [4] [5] Map of the Mt Gretna Narrow Gauge ...