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John, I am not convinced it was used. That is the point I am trying to make. My view on this has shifted somewhat in the course of thinking about this. Evidence from the Diolkos and other presumed rut-ways suggest grooves for guidance. But do we really know that grooves were cut for guidance? Or were the grooves merely worn into the pavement from wheels? There is a big difference, and all we have to go on is the existence of grooves.   Why would you want to guide the wheels of a wagon pulled by a horse?  I don’t see how that would have been any improvement until you started hooking multiple wagons together.  Where is the evidence that they did that with the stone roadways?   Somewhere, early tramways may have been made as stone roads with cut grooves for wheel guidance.  But I am not convinced that all the rut evidence existing today was actually used as trams. I wonder if historians are just taking what they know about the confirmed mine trams, projecting it further back, and seeing in the roadway grooves, trams that never existed.
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