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I just got this from my partner and thought that there are some here who
could appreciate it. I appologize for intruding in this area, but you know
me ;-) I just had to share this with someone.

>How Specs Live Forever
>
>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 the US railroads 
>were built by English expatriates. Why did the English people build them 
>like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who 
>built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.
>
>Why did "they" use that gauge then? Because the people who built the 
>tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, 
>which used that wheel spacing. Okay! Why did the wagons use that odd 
>wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing the wagons 
>would break on some of the old, long distance roads, because that's the 
>spacing of the old wheel ruts.
>
>So who built these old rutted roads? The first long distance roads in 
>Europe were built by Imperial Rome for the benefit of their legions. The 
>roads have been used ever since. And the ruts? The initial ruts, which 
>everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagons, were 
>first made by Roman war chariots. Since the chariots were made for or by 
>Imperial Rome they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.
>
>Thus, we have the answer to the original questions. The United State 
>standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches derives from the original 
>specification for an Imperial Roman army war chariot. Specs and 
>Bureaucracies live forever. So, the next time you are handed a 
>specification and wonder what horse's ass came up with it, you may be 
>exactly right. Because the Imperial Roman chariots were made to be just 
>wide enough to accommodate the back-ends of two war horses.
>
Luck,

Dwarf

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