narrow gauge
Americannoun
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Origin of narrow gauge
First recorded in 1835–45
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“While his competitors were building rail lines east and west, Palmer proposed a narrow gauge from Denver along the Rocky Mountains southward to El Paso, Texas and eventually Mexico.”
From Washington Times • Sep. 7, 2020
You can remind him that people suffer across the world while he studies the history and politics of the narrow gauge.
From Scientific American • Jul. 6, 2020
While narrow gauge railroads were cheaper to build, there was one major downside to a three-foot-gauge railroad: it was incompatible with most other railroads.
From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2018
At Mombasa, the old British-built narrow gauge railway can only take 5% of the containers that are offloaded, says Haji Masemo, a spokesman for the KPA.
From Economist • Mar. 17, 2016
Mules are universally employed for animal traction, and narrow gauge lines with single-mule trams are generally used where the traffic is light.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
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