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Re: Very funny bit of information on the guage of American Railroads (Not directly LEGO related)
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space
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Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:26:42 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Eric Kingsley writes:
> OK this is not exactly on topic but it is very funny and is somehow relavent to
> Trains, Castle, and Space...
> The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5
> inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because
> that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US
> Railroads.
**snip***
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000218.html
Dave!
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