Re: GIANT Western Railway . . .

philip.marshall Wrote:
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> I thought at first you were asking about the
> broad gauge (7') Great Western Railway in
> England! That's the original GWR. All other
> uses of that name are merely derivative.  


Imagine if 7-foot gauge had become the standard, instead of 4'-8½" -

And what a Big Boy would be like if enlarged proportionately – nearly 1.5 times as wide, 1.5 times as tall and 1.5 times as long = more than 3¼ times the volume and therefor also 3¼ times as heavy. To keep everything anywhere close to proportion, you'd have to hire only the tallest 10% of the NBA as the crew, and even then they'd look pretty small!    

- Sincerely, Willie  (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)  
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