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Although the first railroad had reached nearby Grafton in 1852, a narrow-gauge railroad was not laid through the County until the early 1880s ; a standard gauge line followed in the 1890s.
The Hot Springs Railroad, often referred to as the Diamond Jo line, was established as a narrow-gauge railroad by Chicago businessman Joseph Reynolds in 1874.
In 1885 the San Joaquin and Sierra Nevada Railroad completed a narrow-gauge railroad from Brack's Landing to Valley Springs.
Edaville Railroad is a narrow-gauge railroad attraction which opened in 1949.
The BE & C was a 36 " narrow-gauge railroad built to serve the Allegany County oil boom.
Richburg was served ( 1881 – 1890 and c. 1906-1946 ) by the Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad ( PS & N ) and predecessors, and ( 1881 – 1885 ) by the Bradford, Eldred & Cuba Railroad System ( BE & C ) The early PS & N predecessors and the BE & C were 36 " narrow-gauge railroads while the PS & N was a standard-gauge railroad.
Port Royal was also the northern terminus of the Tuscarora Valley Railroad, a narrow-gauge railroad serving southern Juniata and northern Franklin counties.
The settlement was first known as Big Sandy Switch because a stretch of the Texas and Pacific Railroad was built through the area and eventually intersected with a narrow-gauge railroad called the Tyler Tap.
In 1874, mine owners had a narrow-gauge railroad built from Hawk's Nest Station up the ravine of Mill Creek.
In Gulbene, a Baltic single passage narrow-gauge railroad, Gulbene-Aluksne, was renovated and started to operate in 2005.
* Between World War I and World War II, narrow-gauge railroad line connected Legionowo with Warsaw, going through Jabłonna.
* In late 1960s, narrow-gauge railroad line was closed and in early 1970s the tracks were removed.
Despite numerous initiatives, the western part of Istria have been connected with the railroad only in 1902, with construction of the narrow-gauge track Poreč-Trieste.
On the west side of the island one may still walk the " old grade "-the roadbed of the narrow-gauge logging railroad.
The Museum adjoins the old narrow-gauge railroad which was used to haul sugar cane to the local mills.
Filling for the causeway had been started by a short-lived narrow-gauge railroad company in the late 19th century, the California and Nevada Railroad.
Prospectors late to the gold rush now made their way to the Yukon on the new White Pass and Yukon Route narrow-gauge railroad, which took them all the way to Whitehorse, Yukon in the Yukon Territory.
At first, coal was transported from South Lake Union to the downtown docks by wagon, then from 1872 to about 1877 on a narrow-gauge railroad that followed the route of present-day Westlake Avenue to Pike Street.
The Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad ( TC & StL ) was a narrow-gauge railroad based in Ohio.
The name was changed to Fort Lucinda, and attractions such as llama rides, a wax museum, and a narrow-gauge railroad were added.
It is indeed a 36 " narrow-gauge locomotive built by H K Porter in 1914 for a railroad in Guatemala.
Among Frederick's playful structures for Druid Hill in Moorish and Chinese styles is the Chinese Station erected in 1864 and the Moorish Station, which were stops on a narrow-gauge railroad that once wound through the park.
* Crooked Creek and Whiskey Island Railroad – operating narrow-gauge railroad which circumnavigates the park

narrow-gauge and was
It was based on a patent of 1883 by James Cleminson, and was once popular on narrow-gauge rolling stock, e. g. on the Isle of Man and Manx Northern Railways.
The Post Office Railway, also known as Mail Rail, was a narrow-gauge driverless underground railway in London, built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to move mail between sorting offices.
* Narrow Gauge Railway System ( 14 ): A network of narrow-gauge railways was built so as to rearm and resupply the major fortresses (" ouvrages ") from supply depots up to away.
The narrow-gauge Kelani Valley Line, from Colombo to Avissawella, was converted to broad gauge.
Most of the remaining narrow-gauge trackage was abandoned in the 1950s and 1960s.
There are no operational railways or trams in Tonga, although there was once a narrow-gauge railway from the lagoon to the wharf, which gave its name to Railway Road.
It was the headquarters for both the standard-gauge Carolina, Clinchfield, and Ohio ( Clinchfield Railroad ), which required the excavation and blasting of 17 tunnels during its construction ; and the narrow-gauge East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad ( Tweetsie ).
Until 2001, there was a system of narrow-gauge railway built in the 19th and 20th centuries that ran from Hunedoara castle, near Zlaşti through a 747 and a 42 meter long tunnel through the mountain, and the breathtaking landscape of " Ţara Pădurenilor " ( Woodlanders ' country ) before arriving to Govăjdia.
The last remaining long narrow-gauge rail system from the Hunedoara castle to Zlaşti was in use by the Talc-Dolomită Zlaşti company till 2007.
In 1885 the Roslagsbanan narrow-gauge railway was built, connecting Täby with the city of Stockholm.
It was the first public narrow-gauge railway in England.
After the construction of the Stukmani to Valka narrow-gauge railway in 1903 and subsequent broad-gauge line construction during World War I, Vecgulbene was established as an important railway junction, and in 1920 it was given the rights of a small village.
In October 1863, steam locomotives of the 0-4-0 type were introduced to allow longer slate trains to be run and this also enabled the official introduction of passenger trains in 1865: the Ffestiniog was the first narrow-gauge railway in Britain to carry passengers.
Following the creation in 1941 of RENFE, to which the ownership of all Spanish broad-gauge railways was transferred, EFE had in practice become the operator of a collection of exclusively narrow-gauge lines.

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Renamed as the, then changed to the in 1995, the planning of the line has been slowed down by concerns over the necessity of duplicating the existing narrow-gauge Nagasaki Main Line and Sasebo Line between Shin-Tosu and Takeo-Onsen, and local opposition over the final section in Nagasaki city.
The railway began life as the narrow-gauge Santa Cruz and Felton Railroad, built between its namesake cities of Santa Cruz and Felton in 1875 to send logs and lumber down from the Santa Cruz Mountains to mills and wharves on Monterey Bay.
In 1898, The narrow-gauge Lynton & Barnstaple Railway arrived, with a relatively substantial station built high above the bay, and plans ( never fulfilled ) for a branch line to run down towards the shore.

narrow-gauge and late
The South Pacific Coast Railroad, a popular narrow-gauge line from Alameda ( and San Francisco via ferry ) to Santa Cruz in the late 19th century, stopped in Los Gatos.
In the late 1950s, the plant developed steam and diesel engines for the Deutsche Reichsbahn narrow-gauge railways, building approximately 4, 160 engines.

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