![]() Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. ![]() Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (and England) for their legions. Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that’s the spacing of the wheel ruts. Okay! Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Why did the English build them like that?īecause the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that’s the gauge they used.īecause the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing. I say Why is the US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches? That’s an exceedingly odd number.īecause that’s the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US Railroads. People ask why this wasn't the standard on Netflix from day 1.
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