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why the right side?
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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by M636C</i> <br /><br /> <br />But our early locomotives came from England, where they must also have driven on the right although their signals were on the left as are ours. So it must go back to the 1830s in the very beginning. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />I had always thought that the British used the left side and that the right side was just a North American thing. <br /> <br />Another interesting thing to mention is that on vintage clockwork wind-up toy trains, the side that the keyhole is placed on the locomotive varies in the same way. Ones made in North America had it on the right side and British/European made ones had it on the left side.
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