Bryan Blundell wrote:
"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."
Does anyone know why some railroads, like the B & O drive on the
right, so to speak, and others, like the Northwestern drive on the
left? My father, a notoriously unreliable source, always said that
the Northwestern was the way it was because it was funded with British
capital. Any truth to that?
Marilyn Harper