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[Gabriel Genellina]

(Absolutely off topic!)

En Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:50:58 -0300, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com>  
escribió:

> Brunel, of course, being an original, built his system with a wider
> inter-rail gap, and passengers commented on the smoother ride they got.
> But standardization wars aren't new, and IKB lost that one.

And later the Great Western Railway got the most beautiful locomotives of  
all times!

I don't know the current status, but some years ago here in Argentina  
around 40% of the railroad system were using "wide gauge" = 1676mm, wider  
than standard but not as wide as the original GWR.
Now most of the passenger lines are defunct and cargo lines trend to use  
narrow gauge = 1000mm so the proportion may be much smaller now.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina