> Narrow gauge track was used extensively in some areas (particularly places > like Colorado, with it's extensive small-line railroads running up canyons > to mining towns), due to being able to handle much tighter turns in the > roadbed, though it provided less stability and generally was unsuited to > high-speed trains. One of the longest bits of Narrow-guage railway being, of course, the Australian sugar cane railway, which stretches up from the northern end of New South Wales up to the Daintree Rainforest, and covers the whole of Australia's sugar crop. It's used to carry the sugar cane from the fields to the sugar refineries, and is only really active for about three to four months a year. And for some historical reason, it's all three-foot guage. Moof - a pom currently travelling around Australia, seeing the sights
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