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To: maceng2 who wrote (89991)	4/4/2003 3:23:10 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) of 281500

OT (kinda) -- It is absolutely amazing what the Romans achieved. Mind boggling! Even just the road constructions are incredible. Just for horses, carts and men. Real organization. I once read an interesting take on why the subway cars in America are as wide as they are. It reasoned the exact width is quite unusual. As it turns out, the first train cars were made by those who made chariots. As to why the chariot axle was this particular width, well that is how wide the Europeans made it. And the Europeans made it so because that is how wide the old road are in Europe. But guess what? The earliest road standards were made by Romans to be two horses wide...some standards last a long time :-)

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