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standard gauge

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standard gauge
a railway track with a distance of 4 ft. 8½ in. (1.435 m) between the lines; used on most railways


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Narrow-gauge track was chosen because it meant workers only had to chip out a 10-foot-wide ledge along the mountainside, as opposed to the 15 feet that would have been required for standard gauge.
A large, high resolution dot matrix LCD display supports a variety of standard gauge functions, including normal and peak tension/compression readings, high/low limits, set points, pass/fail results, statistical results, load cell limits, actuation and direction.
Returning to filmmaking in 1984, he completed his longest and most impressive film, the thirty-five-minute Standard Gauge.
 
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