28 May
2010
28 May
'10
10:24 a.m.
On 28 May 2010 at 10:36, Ben wrote:
Remember the rail cars are wider. I think the rail
road width was from
the width of the ruts from roman roads in England. How ever since rail
roads started out hauling freight rather than people, you tended to
have a narrow width to save on road bed costs as you ran from the
mines to the industrial cities.
That's apparently an urban legend. Wheel spacing had pretty much
become standard by the Bronze age. The Wikipedia article on rail
gague has much on this.
So how many liters in a barrel of oil? Or does OPEC now trade in
liters?
--Chuck