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Re: Technology and historical continuity...



On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:47:43AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
> Besides don't Debian developers sometimes use trains and subways?

Narrow gauge track was used extensively in some areas (particularly places
like Colorado, with it's extensive small-line railroads running up canyons
to mining towns), due to being able to handle much tighter turns in the
roadbed, though it provided less stability and generally was unsuited to
high-speed trains.

It was sufficiently common that one could generally order a new locomotive
in narrow gauge without much difficulty, or get old rolling stock refitted
with new carriages fairly trivially (refitting an engine was somewhat more
complex, but still quite possible).
-- 
Joel Baker <fenton@debian.org>

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