Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway
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The Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway is a 2 ft narrow gauge railway. The line was operated as a for-profit company from 1895 until 1933 between the Maine towns of Wiscasset, Albion, and Winslow, but was abandoned in 1936. Today, about three miles (4.8 km) of the track in the town of Alna has been rebuilt and is operated by the non-profit Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum as a heritage railroad offering passenger excursion trains and hauling occasional cargo.
Locomotive #10 at Sheepscot station on the restored WW&F
Triple-Combination Coach called 'Taconet' of the Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway built by Jackson & Sharpe company of Wilmington, Delaware in 1901 as a smoking car, and for baggage and mail
Flatcar #118, the only original surviving flatcar
Image: WWFR 9 with freight train 2023 10 28
Narrow-gauge railway
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A narrow-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge narrower than 1,435 mm standard gauge. Most narrow-gauge railways are between 600 mm and 1,067 mm.
1556 woodcut from De re metallica, showing a narrow-gauge railway in a mine
An Electric Tilt Train in Queensland. Unlike other states in Australia which use different gauges, Queensland's network is made up of 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)-gauge track.
The 3 ft (914 mm) gauge Disneyland Railroad in California
The 1 ft 11+1⁄2 in (597 mm) gauge Ffestiniog Railway in Wales