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I was hoping to see the famous story of path dependency that traces the dimensions of shuttles back through the history of rail gauges back to Roman chariots and the width of two horses http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html

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Famous, but full of "fudged" facts that make that version of the story more interesting. Snopes has a full drill down.

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.asp

I was hoping to see the snopes link as a rebuttal.

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