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[[Klondike Mines Railway]] (defunct)
[[Klondike Mines Railway]] (defunct)
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*[[New Jersey Museum of Transportation|Pine Creek Railroad]] (operating)
*[[New Jersey Museum of Transportation|Pine Creek Railroad]] (operating)
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*[[Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad]] (crosses into [[Colorado]]) (remnant of a former [[Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad|D&RGW]] [[Main line (railway)|main line]]) ([[National Historic Landmark|U.S. National Historic Landmark]] status) (operating)
*[[United States Potash Railroad]] (defunct)
*[[United States Potash Railroad]] (defunct)
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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 in three foot 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 such as Accucraft Trains (USA), Aristo-Craft Trains (USA), Delton Locomotive Works (USA), LGB (Germany) ,[1] PIKO (Germany) .
Passengers riding on the defunct Klondike Mines Railway in 1909. A track panel at the Donegal Railway Centre in Ireland . A horse-drawn tram on the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway on the Isle of Man . The Japanese funicular Seikan Tunnel Tappi Shakō Line at the Seikan Tunnel Museum Station, its upper terminus. A diesel freight train carrying phosphate in Nauru . A railbus on the Ferrocarril Santa Ana near Machu Picchu . An electric tram on the Tranvía de Sóller on the Spanish island of Majorca . A diesel passenger train running on the Southend Pier Railway in England . A pair of steam locomotives on the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad in the Colorado Rockies . The "Roger E. Broggie" locomotive pulling its open-air sightseeing coaches on the Walt Disney World Railroad . Preserved train cars of the defunct Oahu Railway and Land Company (note the dual gauge track on which they are resting). A geared steam locomotive pulling an excursion train on the Sumpter Valley Railway in Oregon . A gas-electric doodlebug (self-propelled railcar) constructed by the East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company of Pennsylvania .
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Australia
Powelltown Tramway (defunct)
Belize
Rail transport in Belize (defunct)
Canada
Kaslo and Slocan Railway (defunct)
Klondike Mines Railway (defunct)
White Pass and Yukon Route (crosses into Alaska, United States (operating)
Colombia
Rail transport in Colombia (standard gauge lines also present) (operating)
El Salvador
Rail transport in El Salvador (operating)
France
Disneyland Railroad (located in Disneyland Park (Paris) ) (operating)
Georgia
Borjomi-Bakuriani railway "Kukushka" (operating)
Germany
Santa Fé Express [2] 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 (operating)
Cavan & Leitrim Railway (defunct - part preserved)
Clonmacnoise and West Offaly Railway (SBNO )
Cork and Muskerry Light Railway (defunct)
Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway (defunct)
County Donegal Railways Joint Committee (defunct - part preserved)
Dublin and Lucan tramway (defunct)
Galway and Salthill Tramway (defunct)
Schull and Skibbereen Railway (defunct)
Tralee and Dingle Light Railway (defunct)
West Clare Railway (defunct - part preserved)
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)
Mexico
Ferrocarriles Unidos de Yucatán (defunct)
Interoceanic Railway of Mexico (defunct)
Mexican National Railway (defunct)
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 three foot gauge, but with expansion and reconstruction of the network in the early 2000s they were converted to meter gauge.
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Historically, the entire original Denver & Rio Grande / Denver & Rio Grande Western network and the parts of the Colorado & Southern network originally constructed by the Colorado Central Railroad (west of Golden, Colorado ) and the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad were three foot gauge. Some of the current lines listed in this section are former lines of these railroads; the rest were either widened to standard gauge, or abandoned. Additionally, many smaller railroads in Colorado which interchanged with the D&RG (later merged with D&RGW) and C&S, such as the Argentine Central Railway , Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad , the Rio Grande Southern , the Silverton Northern Railroad , the Silverton Railroad , and the Uintah Railway (which also crossed into Utah ), were built to three foot gauge.
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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 gauge4 ft 6+ 1 ⁄2 in 1,384 mm ), Scotch gauge4 ft 7+ 3 ⁄4 in 1,416 mm )4 ft 8 in 1,422 mm ), almost standard gauge4 ft 8+ 1 ⁄4 in 1,429 mm )1,432 mm 4 ft 8+ 3 ⁄8 in ) Standard 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 gauge5 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 gauge5 ft 3 in 1,600 mm ), Irish gauge5 ft 4+ 1 ⁄2 in 1,638 mm ), Baltimore gauge1,668 mm 5 ft 5+ 21 ⁄32 in ), Iberian gauge5 ft 6 in 1,676 mm ), Indian gauge7 ft 1 ⁄4 2,140 mm ), Brunel gauge3,000 mm 9 ft 10+ 1 ⁄8 in ), Breitspurbahn8,200 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 Gauge differences Transport mode Categories
