Gauge Not only of the Tracks

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If you ever visit Pompeii, resurrected after two thousand years of slumber to a kind of touristic half-life, you will notice in its streets the ruts left by the carts that transported goods there in the times of the emperors. Nobody knew rubber back then, so there was no question of tires, and the hard, iron-plated wheels also carved pretty deep ruts into the stone pavement. And their distance is strikingly similar to today's standard railway ga…