The narrow gauge railroad was an attractive less-expensive railroad to build in contrast to the larger standard gauge railroad whose rails are spaced 4-feet, 8-and-a-half inches apart. This was ...

Measured another way, the ore belt of the holdings was collectively “between three and four miles long.” As for the rail way that served the Yellow Mountain mine, it was a narrow-gauge line.

Standard, narrow and baby railroad gauges used at the mines in Arizona were based upon the width of the track: standard gauge (56ƒ inches ... 10, No. 4 (Winter, 1968); P.R. Griswold (1992) ...

Durango, a city of fewer than 20,000 residents in Colorado’s southwestern corner ... offerings as a scenic tourist railroad. The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad offers year-round ...

Here are some of India's most scenic rail journeys that quite literally feel like they touch the sky:1. Darjeeling Himalayan ...

(just outside of Durango to the southeast), and Farmington, N.M. It was a modest, 47.68-mile standard gauge line (later ...

The Friends of Little Buffalo conducted a fundraising campaign to repair the narrow-gauge rail car, which by then ... and many passengers — both two-legged and four.” Around 1911-12, the ...

Potential routes for the Four ... rail line to connect the Four Corners region of New Mexico to BNSF’s Southern Transcon main line, which would restore a rail connection to Farmington lost when the ...

Waterfront 'Polar Express' rides are back at Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. and Museum on the ... Cash, 18 months, and Natalie, 4, waited in anticipation as the train approached a handful of ...

It forms part of the strategy to phase out outdated narrow gauge rail systems and replace them with more efficient and modern infrastructure. The two DMU trains, procured at a cost of $4.2 million ...

People in Farmington have been talking about what a train line could do for the region’s economy for 50 years — since the narrow-gauge railroad connection from Farmington to Antonito ...