| ??? 01/17/06 21:26 Read: times |
#107652 - Brunel Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Joseph Hebert said:
The width of the tracks were set by the tooling used by the coachmakers who built the cars and who carried their tooling over from England. IK Brunel refused to be bound by this archaism, and designed his railway to a 7' gauge. He was eventually forced to join all the other short-sighted traditionalists in the name of "standardisation"... |
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