Horses’ Ass! by Michael Walsh

As a little light relief from atishoo virus an important announcement about your train travel arrangements. The American and other standard railroad gauges (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. Admittedly, this is a rather odd number. Why was that gauge used?
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