Re: QR going national?

["John McCandless" <johnmc@topend.com.au>]

Rod Gayford <rjaygee@smartchat.net.au> wrote in message
37F82A96.41E81FAE@smartchat.net.au">news:37F82A96.41E81FAE@smartchat.net.au...
> For all the money spent on improvements on rail in Qld its still an
isolated
> narrow gauge system with severe loading gauge problems. By the way, has
Qld gone
> over to canted rails, or are they still persisting with vertical rail
which
> results in dreadful wheel and rail wear problems?
>
> Cheers
> RJG

I wonder how much adulation goes to standard gauge simply because it has the
positive sounding "standard" in it's name?
If the Romans had have made skinny chariots - 'standard gauge' is the width
of a 2-horse Roman war chariot - 3'6" wide, we may be having a different
conversation altogether!  [Then again, Queensland would have probably said
that it couldn't afford 3' 6", and built all it's lines to 2' - we always do
things differently up here....  :-)]

Also, if you were a politician, and had a choice of building a 'standard'
gauge line, or a 'narrow' gauge line, which would you pick?



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John McCandless
Never play leapfrog with a unicorn...
Cloncurry Qld Au