What's the big deal about railroad tracks?

[ziofill]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1177631604186996737.html

[ColinWright]

Here's pretty much the same text dating back from 2000:

http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html

Snopes wrote about it:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/railroad-gauge-chariots/

It was also discussed at length here on HN 3 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20239682

And another debunking:

https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2538/was-standard-...

So, nice story. Not true.

[ziofill → ColinWright]

whoah, nice find, thanks