Okay Eric... that's bloody interesting and sadly, kinda funny too. But I'm confused. When I lived in Africa the railway tracks were noticeably closer together than over here in North America. I lived in Zimbabwe which was colonized by the English and Cecil Rhodes was initially responsible for getting rail transport started in that part of the world.
So I'm wondering... why would a train tracks be closer together in Africa as opposed to N. America when indeed both places were colonized by the English?
