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dougvv

April 16, 2015 01:22PM

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Hi,

Here is a short passage from Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy about changing gauges.

The book was published in 2002 and is set in the middle 1980's.

I hope you find this interesting, I did.

Doug vV

The train came to an unexpected halt in a yard right at the Hungarian frontier, near the town of Zombor. Zaitzev hadn't known about this, and the surprise was soon compounded. There were cranes on their side of the train, and no sooner had the train stopped than a crowd of coveralled workman appeared.

The Hungarian State Railways operated on standard gauge, the tracks 1,435 millimeters apart - 4 feet 8 1/2 inches - apart, which was the world's standard, and incongruously dated back to the two-horse chariots used by the Romans. But the Russian train was five feet, or 1,524 millimeters - for some reason no one remembered. The solution to that here was to lift the train bodies off the Russian tracks - the wheel sets - and lower them onto a different set. It took about an hour, but it was efficiently done, for all that.

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changing gauges - NNG	dougvv	April 16, 2015 01:22PM
Re: changing gauges - NNG	rehunn	April 16, 2015 01:57PM
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Re: changing gauges - NNG	philip.marshall	April 16, 2015 05:16PM
Re: changing gauges - NNG	dougvv	April 16, 2015 05:30PM
Re: changing gauges - NNG	GeorgeGaskill	April 16, 2015 06:46PM
Re: changing gauges - NNG	Brian Norden	April 16, 2015 06:56PM
Re: changing gauges - NNG	philip.marshall	April 16, 2015 07:20PM
Re: changing gauges - NNG	Brian Norden	April 16, 2015 07:24PM
Re: changing gauges - NNG	Chris Walker	April 16, 2015 09:38PM
Re: changing gauges - NNG	Brian Norden	April 16, 2015 11:43PM
Re: changing gauges - NNG	dougvv	April 17, 2015 04:58AM
Re: changing gauges - NNG	jcpatten	April 17, 2015 05:15AM
Re: changing gauges - NNG	guymonmd	April 17, 2015 11:01AM
Re: changing gauges - NNG	dougvv	April 17, 2015 11:13AM
Re: changing gauges - NNG	Tom Peterman	April 17, 2015 07:35AM
Re: changing gauges - NNG	James	April 17, 2015 09:06AM
Re: changing gauges - NNG	dougvv	April 17, 2015 11:20AM
Re: changing gauges - NNG	Kelly Anderson	April 17, 2015 05:46AM
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Re: changing gauges - NNG	Chris Walker	April 19, 2015 05:06PM
Re: changing gauges - NNG	dougvv	April 19, 2015 05:26PM
Re: changing gauges - NNG	Brian Norden	April 19, 2015 11:13PM

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