Richard Gambrell wrote:
>
> An roundabout explanation for Y2k and why software will last forever:
> >
> >  > A useless fact (with a twist) about technology:
> >  >  > The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4
> >  > feet 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.
> >  >  > Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in
> >  > England, and English expatriates built the US railroads.
> >  >  > Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail
> >  > lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad
> >  > tramways, and that's the gauge they used.
>
Yea, but that gauge is not the only gouge in the world.  IIRC the
Russians
use a wider gauge.

Nick D.