Track gauge of the Sacramento Valley Railroad
From: "Candace/Rick Mugele" mrscm@inreach.com
What was the track gauge of the Sacramento Valley Railroad? ...
—Rick Mugele
What was the track gauge of the Sacramento Valley Railroad? ...
—Rick Mugele
posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 9:55 PM
3 Comments:
From: "Bruce Cooper" bcc@CPRR.org
The SVRR track gauge was 5' 3 1⁄2".
From: "Kyle Wyatt" kylekwyatt@gmail.com
Sacramento Valley RR was 5 foot gauge, until 1866, after the Associates acquired it and converted it to conform with the Central Pacific.
—Kyle
From: "Rick Mugele" mrscm@inreach.com
Thanks,
Fact checking. Wikipedia had it at 5 feet 3.5 inches.
Southern railroads and the Panama railroad were also 5 foot gauge, and Lincoln came close to making the Transcontinental line 5 foot gauge. I wanted to make sure that Wikipedia had not found some strange and wonderful twist in the story.
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