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[quote user="LNER4472"]  I will quote an engineering professor I heard 25 years ago in college, who reiterated the same feelings that were cited in a "Quotes of the Month" in Trains at around the same time:  "The first thing you need to know with regards to the engineering demands of railroads is that the tracks are too damned narrow.  If we had the entire concept to do all over again from scratch, we'd start with a gauge of at least two meters or six feet.  But in all likelihood you're never going to get a chance to start from scratch, so assume you're stuck with standard gauge, meter gauge, or at worst Russian gauge." [/quote]   Who was it that said that in Trains?  I remember reading that quote, but I can’t recall who said it.  It was somebody with railroad credentials though.    I am not sure what this guy’s credentials are, but he is advocating a 47-foot-gauge railroad for economies of scale and improved piggyback service: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> <A href="http://members.tripod.com/~charles_W/widerr.html">http://members.tripod.com/~charles_W/widerr.html</A> <o:p></o:p> Does the Panama Railroad still exist?  Isn’t it 5-foot-gauge?  Isn’t the Strasburg RR 4’-9” gauge?  Do they maintain it to that gauge when they replace ties, or do they just let it atrophy back to standard gauge as they maintain it.  I seem to vaguely recall another 4’-9” gauge railroad in the south that operated in this recent era.  Maybe it is still in operation.
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