Railroads, Romans and the Space Shuttle
In 1905, Mark L Requa built the Nevada Northern Railway to standard gauge. Standard gauge is defined as 4-feet 8½-inches of width between the rails. Any rail spacing smaller than that is called narrow gauge. The most common narrow gauge railroads are the 3-foot railroads in Colorado. Anything over the 4-feet 8½-inches is called broad […]
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