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	Standard gauge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As railways developed and expanded one of the key issues to be decided was that of the rail gauge (the distance between the inner sides of the rails) that should be used.
		The SandDR's track gauge was set to accommodate the existing gauge of hundreds of horse-drawn chaldron wagons that were already in use on the wagonways in the mines.
		This is opposed to narrow gauge modeling, which models real-world narrow gauge, or off-scale modeling, where track is not true to scale, such as in O gauge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Standard_gauge (1314 words)

	track - definition by dict.die.net
		Gauge wheel, a wheel at the forward end of a plow beam, to determine the depth of the furrow.
		Salt gauge, or Brine gauge, an instrument or contrivance for indicating the degree of saltness of water from its specific gravity, as in the boilers of ocean steamers.
		Steam gauge, an instrument for measuring the pressure of steam, as in a boiler.
	dict.die.net /track (961 words)

	Houston Tinplate Operators Society - Lionel, Trains, Layouts: Scale & Gauge
		For all railroads, except toy trains, the gauge of the track is measured from the inside of one rail to the inside of the other rail.
		The reason for the inexact scale is buried in the history of O gauge, and was a compromise created for convenience of measuring, even though it's known to be incorrect.
		Regular O gauge track has a rail height of 11/16 inches and O-27 track is 7/16 inch tall.
	www.trainweb.org /htos/aboutus/gauge.html (2200 words)

	The Ohio Broad Gauge
		The gauges of industrial tramways varied around 4', but the variation did not matter much since all traffic was local, and the vehicles used on one tramway did not find their way onto another.
		A wider gauge was thought preferable by some, from the extreme of 7' of Isambard Brunel, through the 6' of the Erie, the 5' 6" of Missouri and Texas,and the 5' gauge of the South Carolina Railroad.
		Flat-bar track was given up because (1) it could not sustain heavy loads, (2) maintenance costs were very high, and (3) the wood deteriorated rapidly, and not because it was a safety hazard in itself.
	www.du.edu /~etuttle/rail/ohio.htm (1847 words)

	British Track Gauge & Loading Gauge
		Quite a lot of Brunel's broad gauge track was altered to 'dual gauge' by adding a third rail but in the 1890's the last of the broad gauge lines were converted to the standard gauge in a single large scale operation.
		Stephenson designed the track for the LandM with a gap between the inner rails of the two tracks of four foot eight and a half inches, the idea being that unusually wide loads could be carried on trucks running on the inner rails of both tracks during slack periods.
		The revised loading gauge clearances required to carry nine foot six inch high containers and lorry trailers to the current maximum road size (fitted with special suspension to lower its overall height when on the railway wagon) were generally referred to as the PB Gauge standing for Piggyback Gauge.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /gansg/2-track/02track3.htm (3443 words)

	Track Gauge
		Track gauge refers to the spacing of the two rails used by a trolley or other rail vehicle.
		However, some systems (New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh) use a wider track gauge that was adopted in the 1800s when streetcars were introduced.
		Cars built for one gauge normally can be converted to operate at another gauge, but the cost can be substantial.
	www.heritagetrolley.org /defTrackGauge.htm (103 words)

	SDRM Rail Gauge Derivation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The only standard gauge in the U.S. is a defacto 4' 8 1/2" as recommended by the A.R.A. committee on standard wheel and track gauges in October of 1896.
		Great Britain, on the other hand, has a true standard track gauge of the same dimensions because it was mandated by an act of Parliament in 1846 that all railroads should be built to the same gauge as the Stockton and Darlington, England's (and the world's) first public rail line to use locomotives.
		America had a multiplicity of gauges at the beginning of the Civil War, but the modern standard was most common in New England and 5' was the standard in the South.
	www.sdrm.org /faqs/gauge/index.html (327 words)

	Gauge & Scale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In particular, they have to decide how accurate they wish their track gauges to be, in relation to the chosen scale.
		Hence it could use O gauge flexible track, etc. But the sleeper spacing and rail sizes could be a problem: 3mm scale on 16.5, eg, looks promising until one realises that Code 70 rail is the equivalent of 7" high in 3mm (1:101.6) scale: 132 lb rail.
		Accurate track gauges may involve you in modifying mechanisms, but this is not always as hard as it seems, and additionally, many high-quality parts are nowadays available for the scratch-builder.
	www.home.acenet.net.au /kjw-meh/gaugescl.htm (1006 words)

	Gauge 0 Guild - What is 0 Gauge?
		Historically 'O' gauge referred to a track gauge of 1 1/4" or 32mm but is now almost universally taken to mean models built to a scale of 7mm to the foot or 1:43.54, usually rounded off to 1:43.5.
		Track gauge is 32mm which brings the outer face of standard wheel sets to almost the scale distance apart thus preserving appearance yet permitting overwidth wheels.
		All wheel and trackdimensions remain the same with the exception of those based on the track gauge which must be increased to suit the chosen prototype.
	www.gauge0guild.com /Whatis.asp (1381 words)

	Model Engineering - Track Construction
		My locomotive is a narrow gauge unit built to 2-1/2 inches per foot scale running on 5-inch gauge track, so sharp radius curves and steep grades are not really a problem for my railway at home.
		The layout of the track was not difficult to solve, as the location of the house on the land allowed a track to run around it in the form of an oval some 200 feet long.
		I mentioned previously that this form of track work was like a snap together kit, well, this is how it works: Lay the sleepers on the roadbed at three inches apart (a piece of scrap timber cut to three inches length can be used as a gauge).
	www.narrowgauge.iform.com.au /track.html (2904 words)

	Rail gauge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Standard gauge of 4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm) was chosen for the first main-line railway, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (LandMR), by the British engineer George Stephenson, because it was the de facto standard for the colliery railways where Stephenson had worked.
		The track gauge adopted by the mainline railways is 5 ft 3 in (1600 mm).
		Iran to the west uses standard gauge, as does China to the east; to the south, Pakistan uses 1676 mm gauge, while to the north, the central Asian republics of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan use 1520 mm gauge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Track_gauge (3388 words)

	Stoneybridge Railway Permanent Way Dept, 9mm `N' gauge track.
		The track dimentions shown here should be taken as a guide, and are not guaranteed to be exact as they were taken using a mechanical measuring tool, So please allow for a slight margin of error on my measurements.
		I am now also modelling in 2mm finescale (9.24mm track gauge) which uses code 40 rail, the track is built by hand with the aid of templates and roller gauges.
		Using a `HARD' ballast is quite easy with code 80 track as long as care is taken not to clog up pointwork and the inner reailchairs are kept clear as even a few stray grains can stop a point blade from closing properly or lift the trains wheels off the track losing electrical contact.
	www.geocities.com /ozzscott/Ntrack.html (662 words)

	Narrow Gauge
		In the 1800’s, there was a lot of experimentation with different track gauges, and there were passionate proponents of these different gauges.
		In America, one narrow gauge that caught on was 3’ Gauge, your basic yardstick gauge.
		The equipment was smaller yet the narrow gauge railroad retained the advantages of steel wheel on steel rail.
	www.guidetozscale.com /html/narrow_gauge.html (764 words)

	Track Gauge - UK Railways - A Wikia wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Great Western Railway and most of its allies were originally built to Brunel's Broad gauge which was initially intended to be 7 feet (2133.6 mm) but due to miscalculations had to be changed to 7 feet and a quarter of an inch (2140 mm).
		What is not so well known is that there was a standard gauge for early lines in Scotland - 4 feet 6 inches (1371.6 mm), and this is known as the 'Scottish Gauge'.
		The railways in Northern Ireland and the Republic retain this gauge.
	ukrailways.wikia.com /wiki/Track_Gauge (229 words)

	Stoneybridge Railway Permanent Way Dept, 16.5mm gauge flexi-track compared.
		Flexible trackage in any scale will suffer from slight gauge narrowing on sections of track laid on curves, the amount of gauge narrowing that occurs on tight `minimum radius' curves is such a negligable amount that it is not normally worth worrying about.
		It is common for exhibition layouts to use C&L track and SMP points & crossings on the viewed scenic sections with Peco or Gaugemaster track and points in the fiddle yard and sections hidden from view.
		It is easiest to paint the sleepers first followed by painting the sides of the running rails with a basic track colour, this gives a finner appearance to the rails making the track fit in better with it's surroundings.
	members.fortunecity.com /ozz_scott/ootrack.html (1099 words)

	NMRA - Scale & Gauge
		Gauge is the distance between the rails unless you are thinking 'tinplate' or 'scaleplate' like Lionel®, Marx®, American Flyer® or MTH® among others.
		Normal track gauge is 4' 8 1/2" between the rails.
		S scale narrow gauge is growing because you can put a nice size narrow gauge layout into a space not much bigger than a modest HO layout.
	www.nmra.org /beginner/scale.html (814 words)

	Scale and Gauge
		This track is 3 scale feet wide, as opposed to the normal four foot- eight inches of standard railroad gauge.
		Gauge is the distance between the outer rails.
		G Scale, a relative newcomer, was originally 1/22.5 narrow gauge using #1 gauge track.
	www.thortrains.net /scale1.htm (3896 words)

	Gauge 1 Scale Information
		The popular LGB uses the 45mm width to model Narrow Gauge trains, which requires the trains to be bigger in size, primarily at a ratio of 1:22.5 or G Scale.
		Scale-minded hobbyists should realize that Gauge 1 was always considered either a collector's hobby, where each scale item cost thousands of dollars, or, with the advent of LGB in 1968, a toy train for outdoors in which true-scale was not a requirement.
		It should also be noted that any model designed from a Standard Gauge Prototype, at a size larger than 1:32, is running on a track gauge that is improperly proportioned for Standard Gauge equipment.
	members.aol.com /metzbahn/stat.html (735 words)

	Narrow Gauge Railroads
		The Diamond and Caldor Railroad ran the eastern end of the narrow gauge tracks near the town of Caldor (built by the California Door Company) with a mill located on Dogtown Creek, a tributary of the Cosumnes River.
		In 1892 the American Land and Lumber Co., later to be the Michigan-California Lumber Co., brought in the first locomotives to run on narrow gauge track through the canyons of the Divide.
		The narrow gauge track used by the railroad was 3 feet wide, whereas the standard gauge track was 4 feet 8 1/2 inches wide.
	www.co.el-dorado.ca.us /stories/narrow_gauge.html (839 words)

	Stoneybridge Railway, N gauge models (9mm track gauge) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I do have a small OO gauge `out & back' single line along two of the walls in here (The Helensburgh Branch) but my main railway modelling interests are in N gauge.
		The tracks on the lower right lead from the mainline & headshunt at the bottom of the picture to the Bay platforms and short carriage siding near the top.
		All track is 9mm gauge PECO code 80 "N"gauge trackwork and has been painted & hand ballasted with Fine granite chippings finished with a mixture of scenic scatter materials and `paper & wood ash'.
	www.geocities.com /ozzscott/stbr2mm.html (264 words)

	How to use and lay American "S" Gauge Track
		As you are forming your track pattern you can use temporary pins every 6” or so to hold track in place until you are sure of placement.
		Instructions), and return it to your marked placement and tack down the track (using track nails, spikes or screws, your preference, with white glue) to the roadbed or tabletop.
		The Sectional Track should be assembled on a flat surface, making sure that each rail joiner is started on the rail ends prior to snapping both track sections together.
	www.classictrains.com /useage.htm (473 words)

	Narrow-Gauge Track Installation
		The track was aligned with track jacks and winches.
		A Caterpillar skid steer loader was used to fine-tune the grade and to move around track panels.
		Before spiking the rail to the ties, the track gauge (24 inches) was carefully checked.
	www.bedforddepot.org /BBPhotos.htm (600 words)

	Sunset Valley Railroad Track and Rail
		A length of track is two 6ft pieces of rail, two rail joiners and six 1ft strips of ties.
		This represents a 4' 8 1/4" standard gauge track for modeling in 1:32, 10 mm/ft and 1:29 scales.
		This represents a 3' narrow gauge track for modeling in 1:20.3 (F) and 1 meter gauge for modeling 1:22.5 (G) scales.
	www.svrronline.com /TrackandRail.html (421 words)

	Atlas caboose won't stay on track - Trains.com Forums
		Even with wide curves, vertical issues in the track may be causing the wheels to 'bottom out' against the floor of the caboose.
		I removed the trucks from the caboose and rolled them along the track ib the places that were giving problems and the wheels would fall inside the rails, adding a shim seems to fix the problem although I relize that the problem is actually in the turnouts them self.
		In your case, if the wheels are falling inside the track, then the track gauge must be outside of NMRA spec on the wide side, or the wheels outside of spec on the narrow side (or both).
	www.trains.com /TRC/CS/forums/979573/ShowPost.aspx (1168 words)

	Llagas Creek Railways
		While our flex track is flexible to a certain degree, all rail materials do have a bit of spring to them, and as such, should be pre-curved to hold a given radius.
		This is especially true if you are planning to use the "floating" track method as opposed to fastening the track down to wood battens, masonry or concrete.
		These allow you to add Llagas Creek track products to an existing layout that uses code 332 rail or change between rail sizes easily on an all Llagas Creek layout, such as using code 250 for the mainline and code 215 for the sidings and spurs.
	www.llagastrack.com (1395 words)

	HO-gauge track
		gauge (Half O) is the standard size choice made for many indoor layouts when space constraints dictate against using O or a larger gauge such as G (and are not so severe as to compel a switch to N or smaller).
		HO is sometimes referred to as 3.5mm gauge and typically measures 16mm between the rails.
		currently has 15 HO-gauge track libraries available for the layout designer.
	www.rrtrack.com /html/ho-gauge_track.html (102 words)

	eToys: Grand Canyon Express (TM) Train Set: G-Gauge Expansion Track from Scientific Toys
		Track is made of durable plastic for years of use and easily connect together.
		Ideal for expanding the track layout of the G Gauge Coastal Express Train Set.
		The tracks were exactly what we needed at a reasonable price.
	www.etoys.com /genProduct.html/PID/1053853/ctid/17/INstock/Y/D (236 words)

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