Railroad tracks’ rails must be a precise distance from each other. If the distance between the rails is too narrow or too wide, the train will derail. Come prepared to discuss the following questions:Imagine traveling back to 1865 when railroads were being built all across the American frontier. How do you think they built the tracks to be the right width apart from each other

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How do you think they built the tracks to be the right width apart from each other

It is true that Railroad tracks’ rails must be a precise distance from each other. If the distance between the rails is too narrow or too wide, the train will derail. That is why railroad designers had to be very precise.

Since the times of George Stephenson in Great Britain, the design and construction of the first trains moved by steam, rails were based on the width of the wagons.

When building the rails, the gauge was decided to be four feet eight and a half inches. That is how they built the first railroad from Liverpool to Manchester.

Years later, in the United States, saw the convenience to adopt that previous standard established by George Stephenson in the United Kingdom. That was the basis used by the two most important railroad companies in the United States: the Union Pacific and the Central when they designed and constructed the impressive Transcontinental Railroad that connected the East coast of the United States with the Pacific West.

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