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[david.d.jaques-watson at centrelink.gov.au]

Dear Folks -

Leslie wrote:
>>> consider instead how modern railroad gauge can
>>> be traced back to the width of the ruts in Roman
>>> roads, a couple of thousand years ago.
>>
>>This is a myth.
>>
>> Originally there was no standard rail gauge.
[snip]
>But I used that story as part of the backstory for my
>current homebrew universe!

Leslie, simple solution is that this goes much farther back than mere 
Terran history. It goes back to the wheel-ruts in _Vilani_ roads, back 
when the First Imperium limited tech development on their subordinate 
planets so much that carts were pulled by good old-fashioned poni-power.

;-)  ;-)
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David "Hyphen" Jaques-Watson ..at.. Beowulf Down (Tavonni/Vilis/SM 1520)
http://www.pcug.org.au/~davidjw               davidjw ..at.. pcug.org.au
"I file things in historical order, with a hashing algorithm of gravity"
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