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The railroad had 900 feet (274.3 m) of trackage, and was operated from 1942 to 2006. It was the first full-size backyard railroad in the United States. The GFRR was notable for helping Walt Disney rediscover his childhood fascination with trains, which led him to build the Carolwood Pacific Railroad, a ridable miniature railroad in his
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An 1868 plan of Fort I of the ring fortress at Magdeburg, typical of mid-19th century polygonal forts. A polygonal fort is a type of fortification originating in France in the late 18th century and fully developed in Germany in the first half of the 19th century.
Fort Gilkicker is a historic Palmerston fort built at the eastern end of Stokes Bay, Gosport, Hampshire England to dominate the key anchorage of Spithead. It was erected between 1863 and 1871 as a semi- circular arc with 22 casemates , to be armed with five twelve-inch guns, seventeen ten-inch guns and five nine-inch guns.
Stack Rock Fort is a fort built on a small island in the Milford Haven Waterway, Pembrokeshire, Wales. A 3-gun fort was built between 1850 and 1852, and then upgraded from 1859 to 1871 with a new building that completely encased the original gun tower. It is now a Grade II* listed building [1] and a scheduled monument (registered SAM number PE334).
The Palmerston Forts are a group of forts and associated structures around the coasts of the United Kingdom and Ireland.. The forts were built during the Victorian period on the recommendations of the 1860 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, prompted by concerns about the strength of the French Navy, [1] and strenuous debate in Parliament about whether the cost could be ...
Horse Sand Fort was designed by Captain E. H. Stewart, overseen by Assistant Inspector General of Fortifications, Colonel W. F. D. Jervois.Construction work began in 1865, and the fort was completed in 1880, long after the threat of a seaborne invasion from France had passed, at a cost of £424,694.
A Viking ring fortress, Trelleborg-type fortress, or trelleborg (pl. trelleborgs), is a type of circular fort of a special design, built in Scandinavia during the Viking Age. These fortresses have a strictly circular shape, with roads and gates pointing in the four cardinal directions.