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Australians mouths are watering
one idea i've had was have both gauge wheel on the trucks/bogies and have duel gauge track where converting so it would be railed by the time it got to the other guage.
I wouldn’t have believed this if it wasn’t The History Guy telling me it happened.
Another case of sheer hubris requiring a superior guage to change to an inferior one. They have tried to do it in part of our country where we have a superior broad gauge and want us to change to standard gauge.
Wow.
Least they did when they did and not just 25 years ago like Australia
It reminds me of the level of coordination used in civil engineering in modern day Japan and the Netherlands, among other countries. The way they convert a railway station or install a bridge in less time than it takes a city in the modern US to lay down a sidewalk curb cut is remarkable. I hope we can get back to that kind of efficient and rapid construction someday.
That's pretty hard to believe
36 hours?!?! Wowwww… Considering the available tech of the day, that is nothing short of miraculous!!!
Some railroads up north were narrow gauge, or anything that's narrower than standard. A lot of them were bought by the Pennsylvania railroad in the mid-late 1800s and converted to standard gauge to form a lot of what's now the North East corridor
Wrail woads
That is insane that they managed to do the full conversion in 36 hours.
Germany had the same problem in USSR. They did not solve the problem.. thankfully
that would explain the accidents that happened
I don't know if I believe that….I think the history guy has done switched to telling tall tales!!
11000 is longer than the trans Russian railroad…..and that whole thing could be disassembled and reassembled in 36 hours???? No way , I'm not buying it
Then there are closed system railways in the South that still use a broad gauge of 5'2", like New Orleans streetcars.
How have I been unaware of this fascinating project my whole life. What a neat story!
And now look at road construction…
I figured it was done after the US Civil War due to states that sided with the Confederacy had to redo their rail lines anyway (Sherman's neckties was the nickname given to what happened to their railroad tracks)
And the American government tdy can’t even get interstate trains to work or even lay down their track lamooo
That had to have cost so much money to do in 36 hour.
If were being intellectually honest the different gages of track was a problem before the war. It was just one issue they decided to fix after the war.
Wtf that's so cool! What a crazy achievement.
Sounds like the south had the better model as 5ft even makes way more sense than 4ft 8 1/2in
WOW!
Came here as soon as i could
Do you really believe they did this?
36 hours in the 1870s, meanwhile we can't fix our rails or build one in California today in the span of 10 years!