[snoringbear]

Perhaps will provide motivation to standardize rail gauges, at least on these international routes.

[Ray76]

They could support dual-guage. That way Russia doesn’t have to change all their rolling stock.

[Sequoyah101]

Russian rail gauge.

National defense.

Poster children for paranoia.

[odawg]

I read that the Russians track is wider because after the Civil War, Southern engineers went to Russia and designed their rail system. They use the same width tracks used by the South at that time.