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During the "gauge war" with the Great Western Railway, standard gauge was called "narrow gauge", in contrast to the Great Western's 7 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in (2,140 mm) broad gauge. The modern use of the term "narrow gauge" for gauges less than standard did not arise for many years, until the first such locomotive-hauled passenger railway, the Ffestiniog ...
Standard gauge railways in the United States (18 C, 153 P) Standard gauge railways in Uruguay (5 P) V. Standard gauge railways in Venezuela (1 P)
Lionel Standard Gauge Set. eBay. This 400E locomotive from the early ’30s sold for a whopping $250,000 in 2016. ... Though not as vintage as some of the other trains on this list, ...
The vast majority of North American railroads are standard gauge (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in / 1,435 mm).Exceptions include some streetcar, subway and rapid transit systems, mining and tunneling operations, and some narrow-gauge lines particularly in the west, e.g. the isolated White Pass and Yukon Route system, and the former Newfoundland Railway.
In 1862 the first railway connection in Grand Duchy of Finland were built with five-foot railway gauge, [95] however that gauge was first introduced in United Kingdom. [96] 1,537 mm 5 ft 1 ⁄ 2 in: England London and Blackwall Railway 1840–1849, converted to standard gauge 1,575 mm 5 ft 2 in: Spain Ferrocarril de Langreo: United States
Competitive pressures induced most North American railways to convert to standard gauge by 1880, but Southern railroads retained their distinct, 5 ft (1,524 mm) gauge. In 1884 and 1885, two important railroads connecting Chicago to the South, the Illinois Central and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad , converted to standard gauge, increasing ...
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