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  • In less than three days, standard-gauge trains were serving the South.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • Railways: total: 7,606 km broad gauge: 36 km 1. 524-m gauge standard gauge: 7,394 km 1. 435-m gauge (2,270 km electrified; 1,236 km double track) narrow gauge: 176 km 0. 760-m gauge (1998) note: Hungary and Austria jointly manage the cross-border standard-gauge railway between Gyor, Sopron, Ebenfurt (Gysev railroad) a distance of about 101 km in Hungary and 65 km in Austria

    The 2000 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • Think of the gunsmith making beautiful one - off classics for his aristocratic patrons, without standardized calibers, parts, or even standard-gauge springs or screws.

    The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle

  • At the Weehawken end the mouth of the tunnels was at the bottom of a shaft some 80 ft. deep, Fig. 2, Plate XXII, the muck in the tunnel cars being hoisted by elevators to a platform at the top from which it was dumped into standard-gauge cars supplied by the Erie

    Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Bergen Hill Tunnels. Paper No. 1154 F. Lavis

  • Railways: total: 7,685 km broad gauge: 35 km 1. 524-m gauge standard gauge: 7,474 km 1. 435-m gauge (2,162 km electrified; 1,236 km double track) narrow gauge: 176 km mostly 0. 760-m gauge (1995) note: Hungry and Austria jointly manage the cross-border standard-gauge railway between Gyor, Sopron, Ebenfurti, and Vasut, a distance of about 100 km

    The 1996 CIA Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • Railroads: total: 16,888 km; note - several additional small standard-gauge and narrow-gauge lines are privately owned and operated broad gauge: 330 km 1. 600-m gauge (190 km double track) standard gauge: 16,558 km 1. 435-m gauge (4,950 km electrified; 12,591 km double or multiple track)

    The 1995 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • The material was handled expeditiously from the scows by orange-peel buckets operated from the shore, deposited in standard-gauge dump-cars, and transported by locomotives at one time used on the elevated railroads in New York City.

    Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Meadows Division and Harrison Transfer Yard. Paper No. 1153 E. B. Temple

  • Hungary: total: 7,606 km broad gauge: 36 km 1. 524-m gauge standard gauge: 7,394 km 1. 435-m gauge (2,270 km electrified; 1,236 km double track) narrow gauge: 176 km 0. 760-m gauge (1998) note: Hungary and Austria jointly manage the cross-border standard-gauge railway connecting Gyor, Sopron, and Ebenfurt (Gysev railroad) a distance of about 101 km in Hungary and 65 km in Austria

    The 2001 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • The cars were taken to the dump and returned by 25-ton, standard-gauge, engines which had previously done service on the

    Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157 George C. Clarke

  • Railways: total: 7,606 km broad gauge: 36 km 1. 524-m gauge standard gauge: 7,394 km 1. 435-m gauge (2,270 km electrified; 1,236 km double track) narrow gauge: 176 km 0. 760-m gauge (1998) note: Hungary and Austria jointly manage the cross-border standard-gauge railway connecting Gyor, Sopron, and Ebenfurt (Gysev railroad) a distance of about 101 km in Hungary and 65 km in Austria

    The 2001 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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