TIL that the southern United States converted all 11,500+ miles of its railroads from broad gauge (5 ft/1.524 m) to nearly-standard gauge (4 ft 9 in/1.448 m) in just 36 hours, starting on May 31, 1886 en.wikipedia.org Submitted by 1859 t3_z9tsub on December 1, 2022 at 5:31 PM in todayilearned 149 comments 2,198
Whimsington_Storke t1_iyjzndt wrote on December 1, 2022 at 11:24 PM No sick days back then either, I'll bet. Permalink 6
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