standard gage
- a variation of standard gauge.
Example Sentences
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It was mixed in a Ransome mixer, elevated so as to deliver the batches into cars on a standard gage track.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers
As fast as the floor hardened the permanent standard gage track was laid and a temporary third rail placed to give also a dump car track.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers
A standard gage main track ran through the cut.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers
A few years after the Civil War, however, the present standard gage of four feet eight and one-half inches had become uniform all over the United States.
From The Railroad Builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states by Moody, John
In the tunnel a traveling platform was constructed on two standard gage flat cars so coupled that a platform 100 ft. long and slightly narrower than the clear space between side wall forms was obtained.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers
