The Fulton Chain Railroad, also known as the "Peg Leg", was a private railroad connecting Moose River to Minnehaha, New York in the Fulton Chain of Lakes. The line was built in 1888, and ceased running in 1892. The line was eight miles (13 km) long, and had wooden rails, hence the nickname "Peg Leg". It was a narrow gauge railway, using a gauge

Rail gauge

Track gauge or rail gauge is the distance between the inner sides of the heads of the two load bearing rails that make up a single railway line. Sixty percent of the world's railways use a standard gauge of . Wider gauges are called broad gauge; smaller gauges, narrow gauge. Break-of-gauge refers...

. It ran only during the summer months to carry vacationers to the Fulton Chain of Lakes.