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Passengers riding on the defunct Klondike Mines Railway in 1909.

The *Slieve Callan* locomotive stopped at a station on the West Clare Railway in Ireland.

A bridge of the defunct Mexican National Railway in 1883.

A railbus on the Ferrocarril Santa Ana near Machu Picchu.

An electric tram on the Tranvía de Sóller on the Spanish island of Majorca.

Three foot gauge railways have a track gauge of 36. This gauge is a narrow gauge and is generally found throughout North and South America. In Ireland, many secondary and industrial lines were built to 36 gauge, and it was the dominant gauge on the Isle of Man, the "Manx Standard Gauge." In modern times, operational railways around the world that utilize this gauge are most commonly found in isolated mountainous areas or on small islands, as well as in large-scale amusement parks and theme parks (see table below). In addition, mulitple railways past and present based in the United States that use this gauge are very popular in the realm of model railroading (particularly in G scale), and model prototypes of these railways are made or had been made by several model train brands around the world such as Accucraft Trains (USA), Aristo-Craft Trains (USA), Bachmann Industries (Hong Kong), Delton Locomotive Works (USA), LGB (Germany),^[1] and PIKO (Germany).

Installations

Country/region	Railway
Australia	Powelltown Tramway (defunct)
Belize	Rail transport in Belize (defunct)
Canada	BC Forest Discovery Centre (operating) Kaslo and Slocan Railway (defunct) Kimberley's Underground Mining Railway (operating) Klondike Mines Railway (defunct) Sullivan Mine (defunct) Western Development Museum Short Line (located at the Moose Jaw Western Development Museum) (operating) White Pass & Yukon Route (crosses into Alaska, United States) (Historic Civil Engineering Landmark status) (operating)
Colombia	Rail transport in Colombia (standard gauge lines also present) (operating)
Cuba	Ferrocarril Recreacional^[2] (located in Parque Lenin) (operating)
El Salvador	Rail transport in El Salvador (operating)
France	Disneyland Railroad (located in Disneyland Park (Paris)) (operating)
Germany	Santa Fé Express (located in Fort Fun Abenteuerland) (operating)
Guatemala	Rail transport in Guatemala (SBNO)
Honduras	Rail transport in Honduras (Cape gauge lines also present) (operating)
Hong Kong	Hong Kong Disneyland Railroad (located in Hong Kong Disneyland) (operating)
Ireland	Bord na Móna (private) (operating) Cavan & Leitrim Railway (operating) Clonmacnoise and West Offaly Railway (defunct) Cork and Muskerry Light Railway (defunct) Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway (defunct) County Donegal Railways Joint Committee (defunct) Dublin and Lucan Tramway (defunct) Fintown Railway (operating) Galway and Salthill Tramway (defunct) Schull and Skibbereen Railway (defunct) Tralee and Dingle Light Railway (defunct) Waterford & Suir Valley Railway (operating) West Clare Railway (operating)
Iraq	Al Zawra’a Dream Park^[3]^[4] (operating)
Isle of Man	Douglas Bay Horse Tramway (operating) Foxdale Railway (defunct) Isle of Man Railway (operating) Manx Electric Railway (operating) Manx Northern Railway (defunct) Milntown Railway (defunct) Queen's Pier Tramway (defunct) Upper Douglas Cable Tramway (defunct)
Japan	Seikan Tunnel Tappi Shakō Line (operating)
Kuwait	Kuwait Entertainment City^[5]^[6] (operating)
Mexico	Ferrocarriles Unidos de Yucatán (defunct) Interoceanic Railway of Mexico (defunct) Mexican National Railway (defunct) Parque Héroes Mexicanos^[7]^[8] (operating) Tren Escénico (operating)
Nauru	Rail transport in Nauru (operating)
New Caledonia	Nouméa-Païta Railway (defunct)
Peru	Ferrocarril Santa Ana (operating)
Spain	Ferrocarril de Sóller (operating) Ferrocarril Tour (located in PortAventura) (operating) Tranvía de Sóller (operating) The Ferrocarril de Sóller and the Tranvía de Sóller are located on Majorca in the Balearic Islands. The other railways of the Majorca rail network were also 36 gauge, but with expansion and reconstruction of the network in the early 2000s they were converted to 1000).
United Kingdom	Main article: Three foot gauge railways in the United Kingdom
United States	Main article: Three foot gauge railways in the United States

References

[1] 2006 LGB Catalog

[2] Steamlocomotive.info - Cuba

[3] Steamlocomotive.info - Al Zawra’a Dream Park

[4] Al Zawra’a Dream Park - official website (in Arabic)

[5] Steamlocomotive.info - Kuwait Entertainment City

[6] Kuwait Entertainment City - official website

[7] Surviving Steam Locomotives in Aguascalientes

[8] Parque Héroes Mexicanos - official website (in Spanish)

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-The [[Ferrocarril de Sóller]] and the [[Tranvía de Sóller]] are located on [[Majorca]] in the [[Balearic Islands]].  The other railways of the [[Majorca rail network]] were also {{RailGauge|36}} gauge, but with expansion and reconstruction of the network in the early 2000s they were converted to [[Metre gauge|meter gauge]].
+The [[Ferrocarril de Sóller]] and the [[Tranvía de Sóller]] are located on [[Majorca]] in the [[Balearic Islands]].  The other railways of the [[Majorca rail network]] were also {{RailGauge|36}} gauge, but with expansion and reconstruction of the network in the early 2000s they were converted to {{RailGauge|1000|allk=on}}).
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v t e Track gauge (list)
Minimum-gauge Minimum-gauge railways	15 in (381 mm) 400 mm (15+3⁄4 in) 16 in (406 mm) 18 in (457 mm) 19 in (483 mm) 500 mm (19+3⁄4 in) 20 in (508 mm) 21 in (533 mm) 1 ft 10 in (559 mm)
Narrow gauge	2 foot and 600 mm 2 ft 3 in (686 mm) 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) 760 mm (2 ft 5+15⁄16 in) 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) 800 mm (2 ft 7+1⁄2 in) 891 mm (2 ft 11+3⁄32 in) Swedish three foot 900 mm (2 ft 11+7⁄16 in) 3 ft (914 mm) 950 mm (3 ft 1+3⁄8 in) Italian metre gauge 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge 1,050 mm (3 ft 5+11⁄32 in), 1,055 mm (3 ft 5+1⁄2 in), 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) 1,093 mm (3 ft 7 in), 1,100 mm (3 ft 7+5⁄16 in), 1,200 mm (3 ft 11+1⁄4 in) 4 ft (1,219 mm) 4 ft 1 in (1,245 mm), Middleton Railway 4 ft 6 in (1,372 mm), Scotch gauge 4 ft 6+1⁄2 in (1,384 mm), Scotch gauge 4 ft 7+3⁄4 in (1,416 mm) 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm), almost standard gauge 4 ft 8+1⁄4 in (1,429 mm) 1,432 mm (4 ft 8+3⁄8 in)
Standard gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in / 1,435 mm, Stephenson gauge
Broad gauge	1,440 mm (4 ft 8+11⁄16 in) 1,445 mm (4 ft 8+7⁄8 in) 1,450 mm (4 ft 9+3⁄32 in) 4 ft 9+3⁄8 in (1,457 mm) 1,458 mm (4 ft 9+13⁄32 in) 4 ft 10+7⁄8 in (1,495 mm), Toronto gauge 5 ft / 1,524 mm and 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in), Russian gauge. 5 ft 2+1⁄4 in / 1,581 mm and 5 ft 2+1⁄2 in / 1,588 mm, Pennsylvania gauge 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm), Irish gauge 5 ft 4+1⁄2 in (1,638 mm), Baltimore gauge 1,668 mm (5 ft 5+21⁄32 in), Iberian gauge 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm), Indian gauge 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm), Brunel gauge 3,000 mm (9 ft 10+1⁄8 in), Breitspurbahn 8,200 mm (26 ft 10+27⁄32 in), Lärchwandschrägaufzug 9,000 mm (29 ft 6+5⁄16 in), Krasnoyarsk ship lift
List of track gauge articles	List of track gauges List of tram track gauges Miniature railways Minimum-gauge railways Large amusement railways
Gauge differences	Bogie exchange Break of gauge Dual gauge Gauge conversion list Variable gauge
Transport mode	Tram and light rail Rapid transit Miniature Scale model
Categories	by country by imperial units by metric units by name lists of track gauges

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