Industrial railroads have long favored small locomotives for their ease-of-use and ability to handle the tight curves and narrow clearances of factories, piers, logging trails and mines. These locomotives came from various industries.
Industrial Railroad
A small railroad usually operated within a factory or industrial complex. These railroads are also used to move freight between an industrial complex and a nearby common carrier.
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Industrial railroad
A railroad owned and operated by an industry to move cars within a factory, plant, or mill and to and from a common carrier interchange. Industrial railroads are usually not common carriers.
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Industrial Locomotive - A small locomotive used on an industrial railroad for switching.
Industrial Railroad - A small railroad usually operator within a factory or industrial complex.
A type of geared steam locomotive used extensively in logging, mining, and industrial railroading. It had three cylinders mounted vertically on the right side of the boiler driving a crankshaft geared to all the axles.
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There is one narrow gauge industrial railroad still in commercial operation in the United States, the US Gypsum operation in Plaster City, California which uses a number of Alco locomotives obtained from the White Pass after its 1982 closure.
 See also: Switch, Locomotive, Diesel, Engine, Point
  
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