Re: MtMan-List: "Steve Anderson" <.blkpowdr@htc.net>: How Specs Live Forever ...

[PappyCton@aol.com]

a friend of mine is a train buff-
he says it goes back to roman days,  due to chariots.  The roman roads were
all rutted from chariot wheels set at the same width.  Whether all roman
chariots started out the same `gage' or not, I don't know..... but, one way or
another, all chariots did end up the same width.  As the roman empire
expanded, thus also the chariot roads.

Long after the fall, don't ya know, wagons were made to fit the old roads,
down the years, until the first steam wagons, then trains.  Kinda makes ya
wonder what effect the chariots of our empire will have on our descendants.

pappy