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[quote user="Semper Vaporo"]The purpose?  To keep carts on the straight and narrow.  Cart full of goods are hard to push AND steer at the same time, so a track provided guidance while the worker provided the motive power.  [/quote] I have never heard of that before.  That  would indeed be intentional tramways built into the roads.  But then why does the classic tale about the origin of standard gage not go back to these actual original tramways?  The story seems to always go back to the original mine trams with iron rails, and then jumps back to the Roman chariots weaing grooves into the roads.  The grooves, though unintentional, forced a standardization of wagon wheel track spacing, which became a convention for tram gage due to the manufacturing art for wagons being applied to tram cars.
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