RR gauge

["The Charltons" <charlton@flash.net>]

Sorry for the non-tiger content but don't factoids make life fun...

> The US standard railroad gauge (width between the two rails) is 4
> feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge
> used?
>snip<

In WW II, the German army got bogged down when they reached the Russian
border due to having to re-lay all the railroad tracks.  Russia's track
gauge was different.

Duncan