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[quote user="henry6"] [quote user="Bucyrus"] [quote user="henry6"]If you take the automobile industry and its use of standard guage rail you can easily see that narrow guage would never have be capable of transporting cars and trucks of the size we manufacture.[/quote]   I don't see that at all.  Could you explain your conclusion on this? [/quote] The loading guage would not be economically or effeciently sufficient.  The size trains, the load size, etc. plus the needed track specs and maintenance would not handle the loads with return on investment as does standard guage.  Or would it have meant that Detroit would have built smaller cars so as to take advantage of long huals on narrow guage trains? [/quote] When you mention narrow gauge not having sufficient loading gauge, you must be referring to a specific minimum gauge, but you don’t specify.  I am sure that 54”-gauge would not have any problems with automobile loads.  I would think that such loads would be possible down to 3-foot-gauge with its loading gauge of over 8 feet.  However, I think history has indeed proven that standard gauge has been the most economical for our traffic overall.  But I don’t see that automobile traffic stands out as the limiting factor of narrow gauge in general.  Although, there would certainly be loads of certain vehicles and other machinery that could not be handled with an 8-foot loading gauge without being disassembled.  But for tomorrow’s new generation of automobiles, 2-foot-gauge should be more than enough.
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