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Comparison with Standard and Russian gauge. Originally proposed to run on a 4,000 mm (13 ft in) track, the Breitspurbahn was ultimately developed with a track gauge of 3,000 mm ( 9 ft in ), more than double the width of the common standard gauge track, and three times the width of the common semi-narrow metre gauge track.
Ghana Railways #1670 in Kumasi. #1670 is a GMDD (General Motors Diesel Division, London, Ontario, Canada) model GT18LC-2, 6-axle, 1,500 horsepower, diesel-electric locomotive, part of an order of 15 ordered in 1995. (GMDD is a division of EMD, formerly a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation.) It has an EMD 8-645 2-stroke diesel engine as ...
The gauge (in American English or more commonly referred to as bore in British English) of a firearm is a unit of measurement used to express the inner diameter (bore diameter) of the barrel . Gauge is determined from the weight of a solid sphere of lead that will fit the bore of the firearm and is expressed as the multiplicative inverse of the ...
By 1952 the rail network comprised 2044 km including 456 km of standard gauge and 1110 km of metre gauge operated by the Compagnie fermière des chemins de fer tunisiens. Their funding was provided by the state budget with the exception of the line Tunis - Ghardimaou which was acquired in 1922 by the Compagnie des chemins de fer Bône-Guelma .
10 ft 3.125 in (3,127 mm) over the grabirons. The GT26CW-2 is the Dash-2 variant of the GT26CW diesel-electric locomotive series created by the Electro-Motive Division (EMD) of General Motors for export to Iran, Israel, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, South Korea, Turkey and Yugoslavia. Various licensees have also constructed or refurbished this model.
Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad. Central Railroad of New Jersey. Central Vermont Railway. Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain Railway. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. Chicago "L". Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad. Chicago Terminal Railroad.
Line length. 500 km (310 mi) Track gauge. 1,435 mm ( 4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in) standard gauge. The Rwanda Standard Gauge Railway is a standard gauge railway (SGR) system, under development, linking the country to the neighboring countries of Tanzania and Uganda. It is intended to ease the transfer of goods between the Indian Ocean ports of Dar es ...
