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Meanings of narrow-gauge railroad in English

Russian
ужд
Portuguese
via angusta
Spanish
vía estrecha

Railway line with a gauge less than the standard of 1435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)

ужд
Usage of narrow-gauge railroad in English
1
A narrow-gauge railroad runs twenty miles into the interior from Solitas.
Cabbages and Kings
2
Part way up the narrow-gauge railroad from the coast is a station called Voi.
African Camp Fires
3
Lakelands proper is a contented village of two dozen houses situated on a forlorn, narrow-gauge railroad line.
Sixes and Sevens
4
Stranger yet, the tunnel was lighted by electricity, and upon it was laid a double-tracked, narrow-gauge railroad!
The Jungle
5
They do this with the aid of a single-spar derrick, some little narrow-gauge trucks and a portable narrow-gauge railroad.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
6
Whether the funny little narrow-gauge railroad exists for Nairobi, or Nairobi for the railroad, it would be difficult to say.
African Camp Fires
7
A narrow-gauge railroad, a train with a disabled engine and a disgusted minstrel troupe arrived at 3 p. m., six hours late.
Watch Yourself Go By
8
He begged for an immediate answer; and if it were favourable he promised to fly, ignoring the narrow-gauge railroad, at once to Lakelands.
Sixes and Sevens
9
It has also had the enterprise, by means of another narrow-gauge railroad, to push its way right up into the mining districts near Gray's Peak.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
10
It's the jumping-off place-theend of a narrow-gaugerailroad.
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
11
I had also attacked the Larrabie Slough Narrow-Gauge Railroad, but the manager did not see the attack, and so my pass was good.
Remarks
12
A narrow-gauged railroad crossed it, and the golfers would be halted by flatcars full of refuse for the newer part of the dump.
The new yorker