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Narrow-gauge railroads in the United States

Index Narrow-gauge railroads in the United States

Standard gauge was favored for railway construction in the United States, although a fairly large narrow-gauge system developed in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Utah. [1]

179 relations: Ahukini Terminal and Railway Company, Alaska, Altoona and Beech Creek Railroad, Ames, Iowa, Anniston and Atlantic Railroad, Antonito, Colorado, Arcade and Attica Railroad, Aspen, Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad, Bedford, Massachusetts, Bellevue, Iowa, Billerica and Bedford Railroad, Blowing Rock, North Carolina, Boone, Iowa, Boone, North Carolina, Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad, Bradford, Pennsylvania, Bridgton and Saco River Railroad, British narrow-gauge railways, Burlington, Iowa, Cable car (railway), Caboose, Cainsville, Missouri, Carson and Colorado Railway, Cascade, Iowa, Catskill and Tannersville Railway, Catskill Mountain Railroad, Catskill Mountain Railway, Chama, New Mexico, Chicago Loop, Chicago Tunnel Company, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, Cincinnati, Georgetown and Portsmouth Railroad, Climax locomotive, Coal mining, Colorado, Colorado and Southern Railway, Colorado Central Railroad, Common carrier, Coronado Railroad, Cranberry, North Carolina, Cripple Creek, Colorado, Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, Delphos, Ohio, Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad, Des Moines, Iowa, Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, Durango, Colorado, Eagles Mere Railroad, ..., East and West Railroad of Alabama, East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company, East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad, Edaville Railroad, Eureka and Palisade Railroad, Farmville and Powhatan Railroad, Flint, Michigan, Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad, Fonda, Iowa, Forest railway, Franklin and Megantic Railway, Funicular, Galloping Goose (railcar), Geared steam locomotive, Georgetown Loop Railroad, Georgetown, Colorado, Ghost Town & Calico Railroad, Grove Farm (Lihue, Hawaii), Hawaii, Hawaiian Railway Society, Heisler locomotive, Heritage railway, Heritage railways in Kauai, Huckleberry Railroad, Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company, Industrial railway, Iowa, Johnson City, Tennessee, Kahului Railroad, Kelley Island Lime & Transport Company, Kennebec Central Railroad, Lahaina, Kaanapali and Pacific Railroad, Lake Erie, Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railway, Lawndale Railway and Industrial Company, Leadville, Colorado, List of narrow-gauge railways in Ireland, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Railway, Magma Arizona Railroad, Maine, Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum, Martha's Vineyard, Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad, Maryland Central Railroad, Midwest Central Railroad, Mississippi River, Monson Railroad, Montreal Locomotive Works, Montrose Branch, Mormon Corridor, Mount Gretna Narrow Gauge Railway, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, Mount Union, Pennsylvania, Nantucket, Nantucket Central Railroad Company, Nevada and Oregon Railroad, Nevada Central Railroad, Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad, Nevada Short Line Railway, Nevada–California–Oregon Railway, New York (state), Newport and Shermans Valley Railroad, North Billerica, Massachusetts, North Pacific Coast Railroad, Northwestern Pacific Railroad, Oahu Railway and Land Company, Ohio, Ohio River and Western Railroad, Oregonian Railway, Oskaloosa, Iowa, Otis Elevating Railway, Pacific Coast Railway, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Railroad, Phillips and Rangeley Railroad, Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Railroad, Pittsburgh and Western Railroad, Plaster City, California, Portland, Maine, Potomac, Fredericksburg and Piedmont Railroad, Railway electrification system, Rio Grande 223, Rio Grande Southern Railroad, Roaring Camp & Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad, Rocky Mountains, San Diego Electric Railway, San Francisco cable car system, San Juan Mountains, San Luis Valley, Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad, Sandy River Railroad, Shay locomotive, Silver Plume, Colorado, Silverton, Colorado, Skagway, Alaska, South Pacific Coast Railroad, Southern Pacific (narrow gauge), Standard-gauge railway, Sumpter Valley Railway, Susquehanna and Eagles Mere Railroad, Tanana Valley Railroad, Telluride, Colorado, Tidewater and Western Railroad, Track gauge conversion, Tram, Tuscarora Valley Railroad, Tuskegee Railroad, Tweetsie Railroad, Uintah Railway, Union Station (Ogden, Utah), United States, USG Corporation, Utah, Utah and Northern Railway, Utah Division (D&RGW), Washington Metro, Washington, D.C., Washington, Iowa, Waynesburg and Washington Railroad, West Side Lumber Company railway, Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (1990), White Pass and Yukon Route, Whitehorse, Yukon, Wild Goose Railroad, Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway, Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad, Yukon, 2-8-0. Expand index (129 more) »

Ahukini Terminal and Railway Company

The Ahukini Terminal and Railway is a former narrow gauge railroad company in Hawaii, United States.

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Alaska

Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.

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Altoona and Beech Creek Railroad

The Altoona and Beech Creek Railroad was a narrow gauge railroad in Blair and Cambria Counties, Pennsylvania which operated during the late 19th and early 20th century.

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Ames, Iowa

Ames is a city located in the central part of Story County, Iowa, United States.

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Anniston and Atlantic Railroad

The Anniston and Atlantic Railroad was a 53-mile narrow-gauge railroad built between Anniston, Alabama and Sylacauga, Alabama, via Talladega, Alabama and Murphy, Alabama.

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Antonito, Colorado

The Town of Antonito is a Statutory Town located in Conejos County, Colorado, United States.

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Arcade and Attica Railroad

The Arcade & Attica Railroad is a shortline railroad that hauls freight between Arcade, New York and North Java, New York.

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Aspen

Aspen is a common name for certain tree species; some, but not all, are classified by botanists in the section ''Populus'', of the Populus genus.

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Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad

The Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad (B&L) was a 19th-century, narrow gauge railroad in Maryland and Pennsylvania.

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Bedford, Massachusetts

Bedford is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Bellevue, Iowa

Bellevue is a city in Jackson County, Iowa, United States.

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Billerica and Bedford Railroad

| The Billerica and Bedford Railroad was an early narrow gauge railroad in Massachusetts, built to demonstrate the advantages of a gauge railroad.

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Blowing Rock, North Carolina

Blowing Rock is a town in Watauga and Caldwell counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Boone, Iowa

Boone is a city in Des Moines Township, and county seat of Boone County, Iowa, United States.

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Boone, North Carolina

Boone is a town located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, United States.

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Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad

The Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad was a narrow gauge passenger-carrying short line railroad between East Boston and Lynn, Massachusetts from 1875 to 1940.

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Bradford, Pennsylvania

Bradford is a city in McKean County, Pennsylvania, United States, close to the border with New York State and approximately south of Buffalo, New York.

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Bridgton and Saco River Railroad

The Bridgton and Saco River Railroad (B&SR) was a narrow gauge railroad that operated in the vicinity of Bridgton and Harrison, Maine.

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British narrow-gauge railways

There were more than a thousand British narrow-gauge railways ranging from large, historically significant common carriers to small, short-lived industrial railways.

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Burlington, Iowa

Burlington is a city and the county seat of Des Moines County, Iowa, United States.

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Cable car (railway)

A cable car (cable tram elsewhere, apart from North America) is a type of cable transportation used for mass transit where rail cars are hauled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed.

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Caboose

A caboose is a manned North American railroad car coupled at the end of a freight train.

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Cainsville, Missouri

Cainsville is a city in Harrison County, Missouri, United States.

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Carson and Colorado Railway

The Carson and Colorado Railway was a U.S. narrow gauge railroad that ran from Mound House, Nevada, to Keeler, California below the Cerro Gordo Mines.

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Cascade, Iowa

Cascade is a city in Dubuque County and Jones County, Iowa, United States.

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Catskill and Tannersville Railway

The Catskill and Tannersville Railway was a historic narrow gauge railroad operating in New York.

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Catskill Mountain Railroad

The Catskill Mountain Railroad, is a heritage tourist railroad based in Kingston, New York, that began operations in 1982.

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Catskill Mountain Railway

The Catskill Mountain Railway (CMRy) was a narrow gauge railroad, long, running from Catskill to Palenville in Greene County, New York.

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Chama, New Mexico

Chama is a village in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States.

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Chicago Loop

The Loop is the central business district or downtown area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Chicago Tunnel Company

The Chicago Tunnel Company built a narrow gauge railway freight tunnel network under the downtown of the city of Chicago.

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Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad

The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad was a railroad that operated in the Midwestern United States.

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Cincinnati, Georgetown and Portsmouth Railroad

The Cincinnati, Georgetown and Portsmouth Railroad (CG&P RR) was an interurban railway serving communities in southwestern Ohio.

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Climax locomotive

A Climax locomotive is a type of geared steam locomotive in which the two steam cylinders are attached to a transmission located under the center of the boiler.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.

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Colorado

Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

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Colorado and Southern Railway

The Colorado and Southern Railway was an American Class I railroad in the western United States that operated independently from 1898 to 1908, then as part of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad until it was absorbed into the Burlington Northern Railroad in 1981.

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Colorado Central Railroad

The Colorado Central Railroad was a U.S. railroad company that operated in Colorado and southeastern Wyoming in the late 19th century.

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Common carrier

A common carrier in common law countries (corresponding to a public carrier in civil law systems,Encyclopædia Britannica CD 2000 "Civil-law public carrier" from "carriage of goods" usually called simply a carrier) is a person or company that transports goods or people for any person or company and that is responsible for any possible loss of the goods during transport.

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Coronado Railroad

Coronado Railroad was a railroad which operated in a copper mining region of eastern Arizona.

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Cranberry, North Carolina

Cranberry is an unincorporated community in Avery County, North Carolina, United States.

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Cripple Creek, Colorado

The City of Cripple Creek is the Statutory City that is the county seat of Teller County, Colorado, United States.

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Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad

The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad (C&TS) is a narrow-gauge heritage railroad running for 64 miles (103 km) between Antonito, Colorado and Chama, New Mexico, United States.

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Delphos, Ohio

Delphos is a city in Allen and Van Wert counties in the U.S. state of Ohio approximately 14 mi (23 km) northwest of Lima and 13 mi (21 km) east of Van Wert.

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Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad

The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, often shortened to Rio Grande, D&RG or D&RGW, formerly the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, was an American Class I railroad company.

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Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad

The Denver, South Park, and Pacific Railroad (later called the Denver, Leadville and Gunnison Railway) was a historic narrow gauge railroad that operated in Colorado in the western United States in the late 19th century.

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Des Moines, Iowa

Des Moines is the capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) is a narrow-gauge heritage railroad that operates of track between Durango and Silverton, in the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Durango, Colorado

The City of Durango is the county seat and the most populous municipality of La Plata County, Colorado, United States.

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Eagles Mere Railroad

The Eagles Mere Railroad was a narrow gauge railroad in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, built in 1892 to connect the resort of Eagles Mere with the standard gauge Williamsport and North Branch Railroad at Sonestown, away by rail.

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East and West Railroad of Alabama

The East and West Railroad of Alabama was a railroad in the U.S. states of Alabama and Georgia.

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East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company

The East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company (EBT) is a for-profit, narrow gauge historic railroad headquartered in Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania, north of Interstate 76 (the Pennsylvania Turnpike) and south of U.S. Route 22, the William Penn Highway.

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East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad

The East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad, affectionately called the "Tweetsie" in reference to the sound of its steam whistles, was a primarily narrow gauge railroad established in 1866 for the purpose of serving the mines at Cranberry, North Carolina.

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Edaville Railroad

Edaville Railroad is a heritage railroad in South Carver, Massachusetts, opened in 1947.

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Eureka and Palisade Railroad

The Eureka & Palisade Railroad was a narrow gauge railroad constructed in 1873-1875 between Palisade and Eureka, Nevada, a distance of approximately.

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Farmville and Powhatan Railroad

In 1886, Randolph Harrison, of the Virginia department of Agriculture, cited Cumberland Mining Company, stating that businessmen would soon open a hotel at Lithia Springs, Farmville, VA for people seeking the healing waters.

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Flint, Michigan

Flint is the largest city and county seat of Genesee County, Michigan, United States.

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Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad

The Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad (F&CC) was a narrow-gauge railroad running northward from junctions with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad at the mill towns of Florence and later moved to Cañon City, Colorado, on the banks of the Arkansas River, up steep and narrow Phantom Canyon to the Cripple Creek Mining District, west of Pikes Peak.

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Fonda, Iowa

Fonda is a city in Pocahontas County, Iowa, United States.

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Forest railway

A forest railway, forest tram, timber line, logging railway or logging railroad is a mode of railway transport which is used for forestry tasks, primarily the transportation of felled logs to sawmills or railway stations.

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Franklin and Megantic Railway

The Franklin and Megantic Railway (F&M) (original name "Franklin and Megantic Railroad") was a narrow gauge railway in northern Maine that branches off from the Sandy River Railroad (SRR) at Strong and served sawmills in Salem township and in the town of Kingfield.

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Funicular

A funicular is one of the modes of transport, along with a cable railway and an inclined elevator, which uses a cable traction for movement on a steep slope.

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Galloping Goose (railcar)

Galloping Goose is the popular name given to a series of seven railcars (officially designated as "motors" by the railroad), built in the 1930s by the Rio Grande Southern Railroad (RGS) and operated until the end of service on the line in the early 1950s.

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Geared steam locomotive

A geared steam locomotive is a type of steam locomotive which uses gearing, usually reduction gearing, in the drivetrain, as opposed to the common directly driven design.

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Georgetown Loop Railroad

The Georgetown Loop Railroad is a narrow gauge United States heritage railroad located in the Rocky Mountains in Clear Creek County, adjacent to Interstate 70 in Colorado.

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Georgetown, Colorado

The historic Town of Georgetown is the Territorial Charter Municipality that is the county seat of Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States.

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Ghost Town & Calico Railroad

The Ghost Town & Calico Railroad is a narrow gauge heritage railroad within Knott's Berry Farm, a theme park in Buena Park, California.

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Grove Farm (Lihue, Hawaii)

Grove Farm is a historic agricultural site on Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.

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Hawaiian Railway Society

The Hawaiian Railway Society is a narrow gauge heritage railroad located in Ewa, Hawaii, USA, on the island of Oahu.

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Heisler locomotive

The Heisler locomotive was the last variant of the three major types of geared steam locomotive Charles L. Heisler receiving a patent for the design in 1892, following the construction of a prototype in 1891.

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Heritage railway

A heritage railway is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.

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Heritage railways in Kauai

There are two heritage railways in Kauai, the birthplace of Hawaiian railroading.

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Huckleberry Railroad

The Huckleberry Railroad is a narrow gauge heritage railroad located in Genesee Township, Michigan, near Flint.

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Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company

The Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company operated a narrow gauge railroad that ran for over forty years from the bar of the Columbia River up the Long Beach Peninsula to Nahcotta, Washington, on Willapa Bay.

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Industrial railway

An industrial railway is a type of railway (usually private) that is not available for public transportation and is used exclusively to serve a particular industrial, logistics or a military site.

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Iowa

Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers to the west.

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Johnson City, Tennessee

Johnson City is a city in Washington, Carter, and Sullivan counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee, with most of the city being in Washington County.

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Kahului Railroad

The Kahului Railroad (KHRR) was formerly a common carrier railway company in Hawaii (United States).

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Kelley Island Lime & Transport Company

Formed in 1886 on the Lake Erie Island of Kelley's Island, Ohio, the Kelley Island Lime & Transport Company was also known by its initials, KIL&T.

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Kennebec Central Railroad

The Kennebec Central Railroad was a narrow gauge railroad operating between Randolph and Togus, Maine.

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Lahaina, Kaanapali and Pacific Railroad

The Lahaina, Kaanapali and Pacific Railroad (LKPRR) is a steam-powered, narrow gauge heritage railroad in Lāhainā, Hawaii.

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Lake Erie

Lake Erie is the fourth-largest lake (by surface area) of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the eleventh-largest globally if measured in terms of surface area.

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Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railway

The Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railway (LO&S) was a narrow gauge railway that operated in southeastern Pennsylvania between 1912 and 1918, as a successor company following the bankruptcy of the Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railroad.

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Lawndale Railway and Industrial Company

The Lawndale Railway and Industrial Company operated a narrow gauge railroad from Shelby to Lawndale, North Carolina from 1899 to 1943.

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Leadville, Colorado

Leadville is the statutory city that is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Lake County, Colorado, United States.

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List of narrow-gauge railways in Ireland

Ireland formerly had numerous narrow-gauge railways, most of which were built to a gauge of.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Los Angeles Railway

The Los Angeles Railway (also known as Yellow Cars, LARy, and later Los Angeles Transit Lines) was a system of streetcars that operated in Central Los Angeles and surrounding neighborhoods between 1901 and 1963.

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Magma Arizona Railroad

| The Magma Arizona Railroad was built by the Magma Copper Company and operated from 1915 - 1997.

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Maine

Maine is a U.S. state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum

The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co.

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Martha's Vineyard

Martha's Vineyard (Wampanoag: Noepe; often called just the Vineyard) is an island located south of Cape Cod in Massachusetts that is known for being an affluent summer colony.

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Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad

The Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad, familiarly known as the "Ma and Pa", was an American short-line railroad between York and Hanover, Pennsylvania, formerly operating passenger and freight trains on its original line between York and Baltimore, Maryland, from 1901 until the 1950s.

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Maryland Central Railroad

The Maryland Central Railroad (MCRR) was a 19th-century narrow gauge railroad in Maryland, with a small track section in Pennsylvania.

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Midwest Central Railroad

The Midwest Central Railroad is a narrow gauge heritage railroad operating on the grounds of the Midwest Old Thresher's Reunion in Mount Pleasant, Iowa.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.

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Monson Railroad

The Monson Railroad was a narrow gauge railway, which operated between Monson Junction on the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad and Monson, Maine.

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Montreal Locomotive Works

Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) was a Canadian railway locomotive manufacturer which existed under several names from 1883 to 1985, producing both steam and diesel locomotives.

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Montrose Branch

The Montrose Branch of the Lehigh Valley Railroad was a branch line that operated in Wyoming and Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania from 1872 to 1976.

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Mormon Corridor

The Mormon Corridor is the areas of Western North America that were settled between 1850 and approximately 1890 by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), who are commonly known as Mormons.

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Mount Gretna Narrow Gauge Railway

The Mount Gretna Narrow Gauge Railway was a narrow-gauge line of the Cornwall and Lebanon Railroad in the state of Pennsylvania that operated between 1889 and 1916.

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Mount Pleasant, Iowa

Mount Pleasant is a city in and the county seat of Henry County, Iowa, in the United States.

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Mount Union, Pennsylvania

Mount Union is a borough in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, approximately southeast of Altoona and southeast of Huntingdon, on the Juniata River.

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Nantucket

Nantucket is an island about by ferry south from Cape Cod, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

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Nantucket Central Railroad Company

The Nantucket Central Railroad Company was a narrow gauge railroad on the island of Nantucket.

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Nevada and Oregon Railroad

The Nevada and Oregon Railroad was an American, narrow gauge railroad that operated from Reno, Nevada, then northwest to the California state line near present-day Hallelujah Junction before reaching Oneida, California in 1882.

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Nevada Central Railroad

The Nevada Central Railroad was a narrow gauge railroad completed in 1880 between Battle Mountain and Austin, Nevada.

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Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad

The Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad (NCNGRR) (nickname: Never Come, Never Go) was located in Northern California's Nevada County and Placer County, where it connected with the Central Pacific Railroad.

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Nevada Short Line Railway

The Nevada Short Line Railway (Silver Belt Railroad) was a, narrow gauge railroad that ran east from Oreana (also known as Nenzel) to the silver mining area of Rochester, Nevada.

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Nevada–California–Oregon Railway

The Nevada–California–Oregon Railway was a narrow gauge railroad originally planned to connect Reno, Nevada, to the Columbia River.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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Newport and Shermans Valley Railroad

The Newport and Shermans Valley Railroad was a nineteenth-century, narrow gauge railroad in Pennsylvania.

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North Billerica, Massachusetts

North Billerica is an unincorporated village of the town of Billerica, Massachusetts, United States, one of the nine sections (hamlets) that make up the Town of Billerica.

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North Pacific Coast Railroad

The North Pacific Coast Railroad (NPC) was a common carrier narrow-gauge steam railroad begun in 1874 and sold in 1902 to new owners who renamed it the North Shore Railroad (California) (NSR) and which rebuilt the southern section into a standard-gauge electric railway.

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Northwestern Pacific Railroad

The Northwestern Pacific Railroad is a regional railroad that serves the North Coast of California.

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Oahu Railway and Land Company

The Oahu Railway and Land Company, or OR&L, was a narrow gauge common carrier railway that served much of the Hawaiian island of Oahu, and was the largest narrow gauge class one common carrier in the U.S, until its dissolution in 1947.

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Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.

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Ohio River and Western Railroad

The Ohio River & Western Railroad was a narrow gauge railway that was incorprated in 1875 and operated from 1877 or 1878 till 1931.

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Oregonian Railway

The Oregonian Railway was a narrow gauge railroad in the Willamette Valley in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Oskaloosa, Iowa

Oskaloosa is a city in and the county seat of Mahaska County, Iowa, United States.

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Otis Elevating Railway

The Otis Elevating Railway was a narrow gauge cable funicular railroad to the Catskill Mountain House in Palenville, New York.

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Pacific Coast Railway

The Pacific Coast Railway is a defunct narrow gauge railway on the Central Coast of California.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Pennsylvania Railroad

The Pennsylvania Railroad (or Pennsylvania Railroad Company and also known as the "Pennsy") was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Phillips and Rangeley Railroad

The Phillips and Rangeley Railroad was a narrow gauge common carrier railroad in the State of Maine.

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Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Railroad

The Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Railroad was a narrow-gauge railroad in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

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Pittsburgh and Western Railroad

The Pittsburgh and Western Railroad was a nineteenth-century, narrow gauge railroad connecting Pittsburgh with coal supplies and the oil field around Titusville, Pennsylvania.

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Plaster City, California

Plaster City is an unincorporated community in Imperial County in the U.S. state of California.

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Portland, Maine

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine, with a population of 67,067 as of 2017.

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Potomac, Fredericksburg and Piedmont Railroad

The Potomac, Fredericksburg, and Piedmont Railroad (PF&P) was a narrow gauge short-line railroad in central Virginia that operated between Fredericksburg and Orange, Virginia.

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Railway electrification system

A railway electrification system supplies electric power to railway trains and trams without an on-board prime mover or local fuel supply.

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Rio Grande 223

Denver and Rio Grande Western 223 is one of a class of 28 2-8-0, Consolidation type, narrow gauge steam railway locomotives built for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad by the Grant Locomotive Works of Paterson, New Jersey in 1881-82.

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Rio Grande Southern Railroad

The Rio Grande Southern Railroad (RGS) was a narrow gauge railroad which ran from Durango to Ridgway in the western part of the US state of Colorado.

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Roaring Camp & Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad

The Roaring Camp & Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad is a narrow-gauge tourist railroad in California that starts from the Roaring Camp depot in Felton, California and runs up steep grades to the top of nearby Bear Mountain, a distance of The travel is through a redwood forest.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.

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San Diego Electric Railway

The San Diego Electric Railway (SDERy) was a mass transit system in Southern California, United States, using 600 volt DC streetcars and (in later years) buses.

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San Francisco cable car system

The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system.

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San Juan Mountains

The San Juan Mountains are a high and rugged mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico.

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San Luis Valley

The San Luis Valley is a region in south-central Colorado with a small portion overlapping into New Mexico.

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Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad

The Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad (SR&RL) was a narrow gauge common carrier railroad that operated approximately of track in Franklin County, Maine.

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Sandy River Railroad

The Sandy River Railroad was a narrow gauge railway built to serve the towns of Strong and Phillips in the Sandy River valley upstream of Farmington.

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Shay locomotive

The Shay locomotive was the most widely used geared steam locomotive.

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Silver Plume, Colorado

Silver Plume is a Statutory Town located in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States.

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Silverton, Colorado

The town of Silverton is a Statutory Town that is the county seat of, and the only incorporated municipality in San Juan County, Colorado, United States.

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Skagway, Alaska

The Municipality and Borough of Skagway is a first-class borough in Alaska on the Alaska Panhandle.

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South Pacific Coast Railroad

The South Pacific Coast Railroad (SPC) was a narrow gauge steam railroad running between Santa Cruz, California and Alameda, with a ferry connection in Alameda to San Francisco.

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Southern Pacific (narrow gauge)

The Southern Pacific narrow gauge is the informal name given to a network of narrow gauge railroad lines operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) in western Nevada and eastern California.

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Standard-gauge railway

A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.

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Sumpter Valley Railway

The Sumpter Valley Railway, or Sumpter Valley Railroad, is a narrow gauge heritage railroad located in Baker County, in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Susquehanna and Eagles Mere Railroad

The Susquehanna and Eagles Mere Railroad was a logging railroad operating from 1902 to 1930 in Sullivan and Lycoming Counties in Pennsylvania in the United States.

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Tanana Valley Railroad

The Tanana Valley Railroad (TVRR) was a narrow gauge railroad that operated in the Tanana Valley of Alaska from 1905 to about 1917.

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Telluride, Colorado

Telluride is the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Tidewater and Western Railroad

The Farmville and Powhatan Railroad went bankrupt in 1905 and became the Tidewater and Western Railroad.

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Track gauge conversion

Gauge conversion is the change of one railway track gauge to another.

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Tram

A tram (also tramcar; and in North America streetcar, trolley or trolley car) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets, and also sometimes on a segregated right of way.

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Tuscarora Valley Railroad

The Tuscarora Valley Railroad was a narrow gauge short-line railroad that operated in central Pennsylvania from 1891 to 1934.

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Tuskegee Railroad

The Tuskegee Railroad was built in 1860, 5 and 1/2 miles from Tuskegee, Alabama to Selma, Alabama.

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Tweetsie Railroad

Tweetsie Railroad is a family-oriented Wild West theme park located between Boone and Blowing Rock, North Carolina, United States.

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Uintah Railway

The Uintah Railway was a small narrow gauge railroad company in Utah and Colorado in the United States.

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Union Station (Ogden, Utah)

Union Station, also known as Ogden Union Station, is a train station in Ogden, Utah, at the west end of Historic 25th Street, just south of the Ogden Intermodal Transit Center.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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USG Corporation

USG Corporation, also known as United States Gypsum Corporation, is an American company which manufactures construction materials, most notably drywall and joint compound.

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Utah

Utah is a state in the western United States.

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Utah and Northern Railway

The Utah & Northern Railway is a defunct railroad that was operated in the Utah Territory and later in the Idaho Territory and Montana Territory in the western United States during the 1870s and 1880s.

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Utah Division (D&RGW)

The Utah Division of the former Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW) is a rail line that connects Grand Junction, Colorado and Salt Lake City, Utah (formerly Ogden) in the Western United States.

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Washington Metro

The Washington Metro, known colloquially as Metro and branded Metrorail, is the heavy rail rapid transit system serving the Washington metropolitan area in the United States.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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Washington, Iowa

Washington is a city in and the county seat of Washington County, Iowa, United States.

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Waynesburg and Washington Railroad

The Waynesburg and Washington Railroad was a 28-mile 3 foot gauge subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

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West Side Lumber Company railway

The West Side Lumber Company railway was the last of the narrow-gauge logging railroads operating in the American west.

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Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (1990)

The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway is a Class II regional railroad that provides freight service, mainly in the U.S. state of Ohio.

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White Pass and Yukon Route

The White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&Y, WP&YR) is a Canadian and U.S. Class II narrow-gauge railroad linking the port of Skagway, Alaska, with Whitehorse, the capital of Yukon.

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Whitehorse, Yukon

Whitehorse is the capital and only city of Yukon, and the largest city in northern Canada.

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Wild Goose Railroad

The Wild Goose Railroad was created by the Wild Goose Mining Company in Alaska.

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Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway

The Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway is a narrow gauge railway.

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Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad

The Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad (YMSPRR) is a historic narrow gauge railroad with two operating steam train locomotives located near Fish Camp, California, in the Sierra National Forest near the southern entrance to Yosemite National Park.

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Yukon

Yukon (also commonly called the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three federal territories (the other two are the Northwest Territories and Nunavut).

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2-8-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, usually in a leading truck, eight powered and coupled driving wheels on four axles and no trailing wheels.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow-gauge_railroads_in_the_United_States

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