0 A narrow-gauge railway has metal tracks that are closer together than the standard British and American distance of 56.5 inches.
This means that the locks through which the barges have to pass can take only narrow-gauge boats—perhaps 70 ft.
We had a diesel-electric rail car system on one of our narrow-gauge "feeder railways" in 1934.
The first item is for 1,100 narrow-gauge locomotives and 2,400 narrow-gauge flat-trucks.
This could not be done from a narrow-gauge line.
Our roads were built not for modern vehicles or the present volume of cars, but for the slow-moving, narrow-gauge horse and cart.
The narrow-gauge line authorised can be constructed more speedily, and will suffice for immediate needs.
The fruit is taken on the trucks of a narrow-gauge railway, straight from the farms to sidings alongside the factories; and immediately it arrives it is put through the machines.
I am not suggesting that these narrow-gauge loco-matives and trucks are in themselves as difficult to manufacture and deliver as would be broad-gauge locomotives and trucks.
