TRACK GAUGES
of the world's tramways and railroads (with emphasis on the Americas)
electric tramway/street railway unless otherwise indicated
an = animal; el = electric; rr = railroad; tw = tramway
an incomplete list compiled by
Allen Morrison

mm

in

line

500

19.7

Santiago Quinta Normal el tw (CL); Yucatán mule lines (MX); human-powered tw in Beira (MZ)

600

23.6

Santiago La Pirámide el tw (CL); industrial rrs everywhere

610

24.0

Edaville rr (US)

660

26.0

Raposos-Nova Lima el tw (BR)

750

29.5

Cochabamba el tw (BO); Santiago Yungay el tw (CL)

762

30.0

Maracaibo (VE); Port-au-Prince (HT); Pusan (KR)

800

31.5

Santos an tw, Itatinga el tw (BR)

820

32.3

Rio de Janeiro Carris Urbanos an tw (BR)

900

35.4

Linz (AT); Braga, Lisboa (PT); Detroit tourist tw (US)

914

36.0

La Guaira (VE); Medellín, Pereira (CO); Pachuca, Real de Catorce (MX); Corregidor (PH); Singapore (SG); Sóller (ES); Lead SD, Seattle cable tw; Boston RB&L rr (US)

950

37.4

Roma suburban, Messina, Cagliari (IT)

1000

39.4

Bogotá (CO); Concordia (AR); La Paz (BO); Ponce (PR); San Luis Potosí (MX); many tws & most rrs in Brazil (BR); tws & rrs in many countries but not USA (US)

1050

41.3

Beirut (LB); Damascus (SY)

1055

41.5

Alger, Oran (DZ)

1067

42.0

Denver, Los Angeles, Portland, Tacoma, San Francisco cable (US); Arequipa (PE); Caracas (VE); Panama City (PA); Quito (EC); San José (CR); Colombo (LK); Hong Kong (CN); Seoul (KR); Arnhem (NL); Tallinn (EE); rrs in Japan (JP) & South Africa (ZA) ("Cape gauge")

1100

43.3

Rio de Janeiro Santa Teresa tw, Cantagalo rr (BR); Braunschweig, Kiel, Lübeck (DE); Varese (IT)

1188

46.8

Jakarta (ID)

1219

48.0

Canton, Honolulu, Laredo, Pueblo, San Antonio, Springfield (US); Glasgow metro (UK)

1350

53.1

Santos (BR)

1365

53.8

Bilbao (ES)

1372

54.0

Rio de Janeiro's São Cristóvão an tw (BR); São Luís an & st tw (BR) ; Hakodate, Tokyo, Yokohama (JP)

1416

55.8

tws in Glasgow area (UK)

1435

56.5

many tws (but not many rrs) in Latin America; all el tws in Argentina except Concordia; all el tws in Mexico except Pachuca, Real de Catorce and San Luis Potosí; most other tramways and railroads in the world not on this list ("standard gauge")

1473

58.0

St. Louis (US)

1495

58.8

Toronto tw & metro (CA)

1524

60.0

Camden, Jacksonville, Louisville, Quincy IL, Savannah (US); Panama rr (PA); most tws & rrs in former Soviet Union (SU)

1575

62.0

Columbus, Norfolk, Trenton, Philadelphia Railways (US)

1581

62.2

Philadelphia tws & Market St. (but not Broad St.) subway; Wilmington (US)

1587

62.5

Cincinnati, Key West, New Orleans, Wheeling, most Pennsylvania tws (US)

1600

63.0

Altoona (US); rrs & metros in Brazil (BR); rrs in Australia (AU) & Ireland (IE) ("Irish gauge")

1638

64.5

Baltimore (US)

1668

65.7

rrs in Portugal (PT) and Spain (ES)

1676

66.0

Bahía Blanca (AR); Fairfield ME, San Francisco BART (US); an tws in Santiago and Valparaíso (CL); rrs in Argentina (AR), Chile (CL) & India (IN) ("Indian gauge")

1680

66.1

Mauá-Fragoso rr (BR, 1854)

1829

72.0

early rrs in United States (US)



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