Narrow Gauge Engines
As the name implies, narrow gauge railways have their rails closer together than standard gauge railways. There are three narrow gauge lines on Sodor : the Culdee Fell Railway (2 ft 7 1⁄2 in (800 mm) gauge); and the Mid-Sodor and Skarloey Railways (both 2 ft 3 in (686 mm) gauge).
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Famous quotes containing the words narrow and/or engines:
“Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good in some particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Thomas McGuane (b. 1939)