The three-foot, six-inch rail gauge likely originated for horse-drawn wagonways. It is called the Colonial Gauge in New Zealand, the Cape Gauge in South Africa, the Blekinge Gauge in Sweden, and kyōki in Japan.
Glover Machine Works No. 81421 is a 2-6-0 narrow-gauge steam locomotive built in 1916 by Glover Machine Works in Marietta, Georgia, for Coulbourn Brothers of Suffolk, Virginia.