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1862 Low's 1864 Ashcroft's 1864 Pennsylvania 1868 Poor's 1871 Pennsylvania 1874-75 Poor's 1878 Poor's 1881 Official Guide 1885 Poor's 1889 Poor's

2 ft (610 mm)[edit]

2 ft 9 in (838 mm)[edit]

Ferro Monte Railroad 2 ft 10 in (864 mm)
Hibernia Underground Railroad?

3 ft (914 mm)[edit]

3 ft 2 in (965 mm)[edit]

Detroit, Bay City and Alpena Railroad

3 ft 4 in (1,016 mm)[edit]

Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Railroad

3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)[edit]

4 ft 1 in (1,245 mm)[edit]

Hecla and Torch Lake Railroad

4 ft 3 in (1,295 mm)[edit]

Delaware and Hudson Canal Company
Pennsylvania Coal Company (4'3½") 4ft3.5in
South Mountain Iron Company's Railroad
Spring Brook Railroad

4 ft 10 in (1,473 mm)[edit]

5 ft (1,524 mm)[edit]

Alabama Central Railroad
Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad
Alabama and Georgia Railroad (not built?)
Alabama Great Southern Railroad
Asheville and Spartanburg Railroad
Ashley River Railroad
Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway
Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railway
Atlanta and West Point Railroad
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad
Atlantic, Gulf and West India Transit Company
Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad
Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio Railroad
Augusta and Knoxville Railroad
Augusta and Savannah Railroad
Barnwell Railway?
Barren County Railroad
Birmingham Mineral Railroad
Blue Ridge Railroad of South Carolina
Brunswick and Albany Railroad
Brunswick and Western Railroad
Cahaba Coal Mining Company's Railroad
Cairo, Arkansas and Texas Railroad (standard-gauged earlier than most southern 5 ft or 1,524 mm lines)
Cairo and Fulton Railroad (standard-gauged earlier than most southern 5 ft or 1,524 mm lines)
Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia
Central Short Line??
Central Railroad of South Carolina
Charleston and Savannah Railroad
Charleston and Savannah Railway
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad
Cheraw and Darlington Railroad
Cheraw and Salisbury Railroad
Cherokee Railroad (narrow-gauged before most southern 5 ft or 1,524 mm lines were standard-gauged)
Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad (standard-gauged earlier than most southern 5 ft or 1,524 mm lines)
Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap and Charleston Railroad
Cincinnati and Green River Railway
Cincinnati, Lexington and East Tennessee Railroad
Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway
Cincinnati, Selma and Mobile Railway
Cincinnati Southern Railway
City and Suburban Railway
Columbia and Augusta Railroad
Columbia and Greenville Railroad
Columbus and Western Railway
Cumberland and Ohio Railroad??
East Alabama Railway
East Alabama and Cincinnati Railroad
East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad
Eatonton Branch Railroad
Eufaula and Clayton Railway
Eureka Iron Company
Evansville, Henderson and Nashville Railroad
Fernandina and Jacksonville Railroad
Florida Railroad
Florida Central Railroad
Florida Railway and Navigation Company
Georgetown and Lane's Railroad
Georgia Railroad and Banking Company
Georgia Pacific Railway
Georgia Southern Railroad
Glasgow Railroad
Grand Gulf and Port Gibson Railroad?? (originally 4 ft 10 in or 1,473 mm) (standard-gauged earlier than most southern 5 ft or 1,524 mm lines)
Greenville and Columbia Railroad
Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway
Kentucky Central Railroad (standard-gauged earlier than most southern 5 ft or 1,524 mm lines)
Kings Mountain Railroad (narrow-gauged before most southern 5 ft or 1,524 mm lines were standard-gauged)
Knoxville and Augusta Railroad
Knoxville and Charleston Railroad
Knoxville and Kentucky Railroad
Knoxville and Ohio Railroad
Laurens Railroad
Laurens Railway
Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad (standard-gauged earlier than most southern 5 ft or 1,524 mm lines)
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Louisville, Paducah and Southwestern Railroad
Louisville Bridge Company
Louisville Railway Transfer Company
Louisville and Wadley Railroad?? (standard-gauged earlier than most southern 5 ft or 1,524 mm lines)
Macon and Augusta Railroad
Macon and Brunswick Railroad
Maysville and Lexington Railroad
McMinnville and Manchester Railroad
Memphis and Charleston Railroad
Memphis and Little Rock Railroad
Memphis, Paducah and Northern Railroad (standard-gauged earlier than most southern 5 ft or 1,524 mm lines)
Mexican Gulf Railroad
Midland North Carolina Railway
Mississippi Central Railroad (standard-gauged earlier than most southern 5 ft or 1,524 mm lines)
Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad (standard-gauged earlier than most southern 5 ft or 1,524 mm lines)
Mississippi Valley and Ship Island Railroad (standard-gauged earlier than most southern 5 ft or 1,524 mm lines)
Mobile and Alabama Grand Trunk Railroad
Mobile and Girard Railroad
Mobile and Great Northern Railroad
Mobile and Montgomery Railroad
Mobile and Montgomery Railway
Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Monongahela Inclined Plane Company
Montgomery and Eufaula Railway
Mount Oliver Incline Railway
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway
Nashville and Decatur Railroad
Nashville and Florence Railroad
Nashville, Florence and Sheffield Railway (standard-gauged later than most southern 5 ft or 1,524 mm lines)
Nashville and North Western Railroad
Nashville and Tuscaloosa Railroad?
New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad
New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad (standard-gauged earlier than most southern 5 ft or 1,524 mm lines)
New Orleans and Mobile Railroad
New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad
New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad
New Orleans and Selma Railroad Company and Immigration Association
Norfolk and Western Railroad
North Eastern Railroad (Georgia) (standard-gauged later than most southern 5 ft or 1,524 mm lines)
Northeastern Railroad (South Carolina)
North Western North Carolina Railroad
Ocmulgee and Horse Creek Railroad
Old Orchard Beach Railroad
Owensboro and Nashville Railroad
Owensboro and Nashville Railway
Owensboro and Russellville Railroad
Paducah and Elizabethtown Railroad (standard-gauged earlier than most southern 5 ft or 1,524 mm lines)
Panama Railroad
Pensacola Railroad
Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad
Pensacola and Louisville Railroad
Pensacola and Mobile Railroad and Manufacturing Company
Pensacola and Perdido Railroad (standard-gauged later than most southern 5 ft or 1,524 mm lines)
Pensacola and Selma Railroad
Piedmont Railroad
Port Royal Railroad
Port Royal and Augusta Railway
Pratt Coal and Iron Company's Railroad
Richmond and Danville Railroad
Richmond and Mecklenburg Railroad?
Richmond, York River and Chesapeake Railroad
Rogersville and Jefferson Railroad
Rome Railroad
St. John's and Indian River Railroad
St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad (standard-gauged earlier than most southern 5 ft or 1,524 mm lines)
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway (standard-gauged earlier than most southern 5 ft or 1,524 mm lines)
St. Louis and South Eastern Railway
Sandersville and Tennille Railroad (standard-gauged later than most southern 5 ft or 1,524 mm lines)
Savannah and Charleston Railroad
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama Railroad
Savannah and Memphis Railroad
Savannah, Skiddaway and Seaboard Railroad
Scotland Neck Railroad??
Selma and Greensboro Railroad
Selma and Gulf Railroad
Selma, Marion and Memphis Railroad
Selma and Meridian Railroad
Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad
Shelby Railroad
South Carolina Railroad
South Carolina Railway
South East and St. Louis Railway?
South and North Alabama Railroad
Southwestern Railroad (Georgia)
Southwestern Railroad (Kentucky)
Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad
Spartanburg, Union and Columbia Railroad
Talbotton Railroad (standard-gauged later than most southern 5 ft or 1,524 mm lines)
Tallahassee Railroad
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Tennessee and Pacific Railroad
Upson County Railroad
Vicksburg and Brunswick Railroad
Vicksburg and Meridian Railroad
Vidalia and Lake Concordia Railroad and Steamboat Transportation Company?? (standard-gauged earlier than most southern 5 ft or 1,524 mm lines)
Western Railroad of Alabama
Western and Atlantic Railroad
Western North Carolina Railroad
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
Winchester and Alabama Railroad

5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm)[edit]

Citizens' Passenger Railway (Philadelphia) 5 ft 2 in (1,575 mm)
Citizens' Passenger Railway (Pittsburgh) 5 ft 2+1⁄4 in (1,581 mm)
Delaware County Passenger Railway 5 ft 2 in (1,575 mm)
Fairmount and Arch Street City Passenger Railway 5 ft 2 in (1,575 mm)
Frankford and Southwark Philadelphia City Passenger Railway 5 ft 2+1⁄2 in (1,588 mm)
Germantown Passenger Railway 5 ft 2+1⁄2 in (1,588 mm)
Girard College Passenger Railway 5ft4in
Green and Coates Street Philadelphia Passenger Railway 5 ft 2 in (1,575 mm)
Mobile and Spring Hill Railroad 5 ft 2+1⁄2 in (1,588 mm)
Monroeville and Sandusky City Railroad 5ft4in
Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad 5 ft 2 in (1,575 mm)
Mount Washington Railroad
Oakland Passenger Railway 5 ft 2 in (1,575 mm)
Orange and Newark Railroad 5 ft 2+1⁄2 in (1,588 mm)
Philadelphia City Passenger Railway 5 ft 2 in (1,575 mm)
Philadelphia and Darby Passenger Railway 5 ft 2+1⁄2 in (1,588 mm)
Philadelphia and Gray's Ferry Passenger Railway 5 ft 2 in (1,575 mm)
Pittsburgh, Allegheny and Manchester Passenger Railway 5 ft 2+1⁄4 in (1,581 mm)
Pittsburgh and Birmingham Passenger Railway 5 ft 2 in (1,575 mm)
Pittsburgh and Minersville Passenger Railway 5 ft 2 in (1,575 mm)
Race and Vine Street Passenger Railway 5 ft 2 in (1,575 mm)
Ridge Avenue and Manayunk Passenger Railway 5ft4in
Scioto and Hocking Valley Railroad 5ft4in
Second and Third Street Passenger Railway 5 ft 2 in (1,575 mm)
Seventeenth and Nineteenth Streets Passenger Railway 5 ft 2+1⁄2 in (1,588 mm)
Thirteenth and Fifteenth Streets Passenger Railway 5 ft 2 in (1,575 mm)
West Philadelphia Passenger Railway 5 ft 2+1⁄2 in (1,588 mm)

5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm)[edit]

5'9" 5ft9in, Track gauge 5ft9in not in List of defined track gauges[edit]

Eaton and Hamilton Railroad (5'10" 5ft10in, in 1862 - typo for 4'10" 4 ft 10 in or 1,473 mm?)

6 ft (1,829 mm)[edit]

Albany and Susquehanna Railroad, 1851- (third rail for standard gauge in 1871)
Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, 1853-1865
Atlantic and Great Western Railway, 1865-1871
Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, 1871-1880
Avon, Geneseo and Mount Morris Railroad
Barclay Railroad?
Blossburg and Corning Railroad?
Buffalo, Bradford and Pittsburgh Railroad
Buffalo, Corning and New York Railroad
Buffalo Creek Railroad
Buffalo and New York City Railroad
Buffalo, New York and Erie Railroad (some third rail for standard gauge)
Canandaigua and Elmira Railroad?
Canandaigua and Niagara Falls Railroad?
Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad, 1849-
Central Railroad of New Jersey (third rail, Elizabethport to Hampton), 1856-1876
Chemung Railroad (third rail for standard gauge, for Northern Central Railway)
Cherry Valley, Sharon and Albany Railroad, 1869-
Chester Railroad??
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad (third and fourth rails, Dayton to Cincinnati), 1864-1876
Cleveland and Mahoning Railroad (third rail, Leavittsburg to Cleveland), 1863-
Cooperstown and Susquehanna Valley Railroad
Corning, Cowanesque and Antrim Railway
Cowanesque Valley Railroad
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, 1853-1876
Elmira, Jefferson and Canandaigua Railroad?
Elmira State Line Railroad
Erie Railway, 1861-1878 (third rail for standard gauge beginning in 1876, Waverly to Suspension Bridge, for Lehigh Valley Railroad)
Erie and Genesee Valley Railroad??
Erie International Railway (third rail for standard gauge)
Erie and North East Railroad, 1842?-1854
Farmers' Railroad (three rails)
Garnerville Railroad
Goshen and Deckertown Railway
Greene Railroad
Illinois and Wisconsin Railroad, 1851-1855
Jefferson Railroad (third rail for standard gauge)
Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad -1876 (old standard gauge rail kept as third rail)
Lodi Branch Railroad?
Long Dock Company
Middleburgh and Schoharie Railroad
Middletown, Unionville and Water Gap Railroad?
Montgomery and Erie Railway
Monticello and Port Jervis Railroad
Morris and Essex Railroad 1869/70-1876 (old standard gauge rail kept as third rail; was it standard gauge only west of Washington?)
Nanuet and New City Railroad?
New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company (third rail, Jersey City to Marion Junction), 1853-
New Jersey and New York Railroad
New York and Erie Railroad, 1832-1861
New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad, 1878-1880 (third rail for standard gauge beginning in 1878, Jersey City to Waverly)
New York and Fort Lee Railroad
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad, 1880-1880 (retains earlier third rail between Salamanca and Leavittsburg)
Newark and Bloomfield Railroad??
Newark and Hudson Railroad (some third rail for standard gauge)
Newburgh and New York Railway
Northern Railroad of New Jersey
Nyack and Northern Railroad?
Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, 1848-1867
Ohio and Mississippi Railway, 1862-
Oil Creek Railroad (three rails)
Oil Creek and Allegheny River Railway (three rails; interesting details in 1868)
Oswego and Syracuse Railroad, 1868-1876 (old standard gauge rail kept as third rail) (third rail, 3.15 mi, retained after standard-gauging)
Paterson and Hudson River Railroad, 1852?-
Paterson, Newark and New York Railroad (third rail for standard gauge)
Paterson and Ramapo Railroad, 1852?-
Pennsylvania Coal Company (Hawley/Lackawaxen Branch)
Pittsburgh, Titusville and Buffalo Railway
Port Jervis and Monticello Railroad
Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad
Schoharie Valley Railroad
Silver Lake Railway?
Southfield Branch Railroad
Sterling Mountain Railroad
Sterling Mountain Railway
Suspension Bridge and Erie Junction Railroad (third rail for standard gauge)
Syracuse, Binghamton and New York Railroad
Tioga Railroad
Union Railroad, 1852?-
Utica, Chenango and Susquehanna Valley Railway, 1874-1876
Valley Railroad
Wallkill Valley Railway
Warren Railroad
Warwick Valley Railroad
Weehawken Branch Railroad

Outliers in 1887 (not 3 ft / 914 mm or between 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in / 1,435 mm and 4 ft 9 in / 1,448 mm) - also checked against 1903[edit]

Bridgton and Saco River Railroad 2 ft (610 mm)
Franklin and Megantic Railroad → Franklin and Megantic Railway 2 ft (610 mm)
Kennebec Central Railroad 2 ft (610 mm)
Kingfield and Dead River Railway 2 ft (610 mm)
Monson Railroad 2 ft (610 mm)
Phillips and Rangeley Railroad 2 ft (610 mm)
Sandy River Railroad 2'0"
Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railroad 2 ft (610 mm)

Ferro Monte Railroad 2 ft 10 in (864 mm) (gone by 1903)

Addyston and Ohio River Railroad 2 ft 10+1⁄2 in (876 mm)

Profile and Franconia Notch Railroad 3'½" 3ft.5in (gone by 1903)

Paris and Pere Marquette Railroad 3 ft 1 in (940 mm) (gone by 1889)

New Castle and Butler Railroad 3 ft 2 in (965 mm)

Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Railroad 3 ft 4 in (1,016 mm)

Herkimer, Newport and Poland Narrow Gauge Railway 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) (gone by 1903)
Moline and Southeastern Railroad 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) (gone by 1889)
Natchez, Jackson and Columbus Railroad 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) (gone by 1903)
New Castle Railroad and Mining Company 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) (gone by 1889)
Newfoundland Railway 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) (gone by 1903)
Prince Edward Island Railway 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Rio Grande Railroad (Texas) 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Shelby Iron Company's Railroad 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) (gone by 1903)
Suffolk and Carolina Railway 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Suffolk Lumber Company's Railroad 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) (gone by 1889)

Norfolk and Ocean View Railroad and Hotel Company 3'6½" 3ft6.5in (gone by 1903)

Arcata and Mad River Railroad 3 ft 9+1⁄2 in (1,156 mm)

Addyston and Ohio River Railroad 4 ft (1,219 mm)

Hecla and Torch Lake Railroad 4 ft 1 in (1,245 mm)

Delaware and Hudson Canal Company 4 ft 3 in (1,295 mm) until 1899-1900

Green Mountain Railroad 4'7½" 4 ft 7+1⁄2 in (1,410 mm) (gone by 1903)

Bennington and Glastenbury Railroad 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm) (gone by 1889)
Chicago, Burlington and Kansas City Railway 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm) (gone by 1903)
Cumberland and Maurice River Railroad 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm) (gone by 1889)
Eastern Railway of Alabama 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm)
Medix Run Railroad 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm)
Mount Gilead Short Line Railroad 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm) (standard by 1889 - possible typo)
Parsons and Pacific Railroad 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm) (gone by 1889)
Schoharie Valley Railway 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm) (but standard in 1887)
Thousand Islands Railway 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm) (standard by 1889)
Tremont and Gulf Railroad 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm)

Hibernia Mine Railroad 4 ft 9+1⁄2 in (1,461 mm) (gone by 1903)

Iron Railway 4 ft 10 in (1,473 mm) (standard by 1889)

City and Suburban Railway (Savannah) 5 ft (1,524 mm) (gone by 1889)
Columbus and Western Railway 5 ft (1,524 mm) (gone by 1891; obvious typo of 5 ft 8 in or 1,727 mm in 1889)
Georgetown and Western Railroad 5 ft (1,524 mm) (4 ft 9 in or 1,448 mm by 1889)
Monongahela Inclined Plane Company 5 ft (1,524 mm) (and 12ft for "vehicle plane", but Monongahela Freight Incline says 10 ft or 3,048 mm) (gone by 1889)
Nashville and Florence Railroad → Nashville, Florence and Sheffield Railway 5 ft (1,524 mm) (gone by 1903)
North Eastern Railroad (Georgia) 5 ft (1,524 mm) (gone by 1903)
Northwestern North Carolina Railroad 5 ft (1,524 mm) (4 ft 9 in or 1,448 mm by 1889 - probable typo in 1887)
Panama Railroad 5 ft (1,524 mm)
Pensacola and Perdido Railroad 5 ft (1,524 mm) (gone by 1903)
Piedmont Railroad 5 ft (1,524 mm) (4 ft 9 in or 1,448 mm by 1889 - probable typo in 1887)
Richmond, York River and Chesapeake Railroad 5 ft (1,524 mm) (4 ft 9 in or 1,448 mm by 1889 - probable typo in 1887)
Sandersville and Tennille Railroad 5 ft (1,524 mm) (gone by 1903)
Talbotton Railroad 5 ft (1,524 mm) (gone by 1903)

Mobile and Spring Hill Railroad 5 ft 2+1⁄2 in (1,588 mm) (gone by 1903)
Mount Oliver Incline Railway 5 ft 2+1⁄2 in (1,588 mm) (gone by 1889)

Mount Washington Railroad 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm)

Carillon and Grenville Railroad 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm)
Cobourg, Peterborough and Marmora Railway and Mining Company → Cobourg, Blairton and Marmora Railway and Mining Company 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) (gone by 1903)

Jefferson Railroad 6 ft (1,829 mm) dual (gone by 1903)
Southfield Branch Railroad 6 ft (1,829 mm) dual (standard only by 1889)

Island Railroad gauge not given
Mexican Railway gauge not given
Oregon Pacific Railroad gauge not given
St. Louis, Cable and Western Railway gauge not given
Sonora Railway gauge not given
Versailles and Midway Railroad gauge not given
Whitneyville and Machiasport Railroad gauge not given

(some Nova Scotia mineral railways 3 ft 6 in or 1,067 mm / 5 ft 6 in or 1,676 mm)

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