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To: MrB

Seriously, why doesn’t some enterprising reporter ask her some questions about the underground railroad...track spacing, type of locomotive, etc.

She is supposedly a smart woman...and she thinks there were cho cho trains to ‘ride’.


21 posted on 09/24/2012 2:01:31 PM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: lacrew

Unless they decided that using the standard road/railroad guage would be “actin’ white”, they’d use 4 ft, 8 1/2 in.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2538/was-standard-railroad-gauge-48-determined-by-roman-chariot-ruts


74 posted on 09/25/2012 5:45:49 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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