3 ft gauge railroads in the United States
This is a list of 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge railways in the United States.
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Engine No. 1 of the Crooked Creek & Whiskey Island Railroad in Pioneer Park was built in 1899 and is the oldest working locomotive in Alaska.
The Ward Kimball locomotive of the Disneyland Railroad.
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 underneath them).
A line of the defunct Nantucket Central Railroad Company sometime between 1910 and 1917.
A Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad water tower in its yard in New Mexico.
The Cedar Point & Lake Erie Railroad opened in 1963 at the start of Cedar Point's 94th season.
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A gas-electric doodlebug constructed by the East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company of Pennsylvania.
Crewmen in front of a locomotive on the defunct East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad c. 1914.
The Six Flags & Texas Railroad, located in Six Flags Over Texas, is the only remaining attraction from the park's inaugural season in 1961.
A European-themed locomotive built by Crown Metal Products for the Busch Gardens Railway in Busch Gardens Williamsburg.
Narrow-gauge railroads of various sizes existed across the US, especially during the late 1800s, with the most popular gauge being 3 ft gauge.[1][2] Some of the more famous 3 ft gauge railroad networks in the US were based in California, Colorado, and Hawaii. These narrow-gauge lines were easier to build than standard gauge and cost significantly less to construct. Some of the lines of these former networks still exist in the present day and continue to use 3 ft gauge track, while the rest were either widened to standard gauge or abandoned (see table below).
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See also
- Narrow-gauge railroads in the United States
- Heritage railway
- 2 ft gauge railroads in the United States
- 2 ft 6 in gauge railroads in the United States
- 3 ft gauge railways in the United Kingdom
- Three foot six inch gauge railways in the United States
- Three foot gauge locomotives on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
- D&RGW No. 168 (undergoing full restoration)
- D&RGW No. 169 (static display)
- D&RGW No. 223 (undergoing full restoration)
- D&RGW No. 278 (undergoing cosmetic restoration)
- D&RGW No. 315 (operational)
- D&RGW No. 463 (operational)
- ET&WNC No. 12 (operational)
- Eureka Locomotive (operational)
- Glenbrook Locomotive (operational)
References
- Broggie 2014, p. 111.
- The Standardization of Track Gauge on North American Railways, 1830-1890 Archived 2014-04-07 at the Wayback Machine
- Laws Railroad Museum and Historic Site - official website
- Kauai Plantation Railway - official website Archived May 12, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- Republic of West Florida Historical Museum - official website
- Point O' Woods Railroad - official website
- Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads & Telegraphs of Ohio, for the year ending June 30, 1880, p. 1,244
- Doe River Gorge - official website
Bibliography
- Broggie, Michael (2014), Walt Disney's Railroad Story: The Small-Scale Fascination That Led to a Full-Scale Kingdom (4th ed.), The Donning Company Publishers, ISBN 978-1-57864-914-3
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