high speed railroad can cause significant problems, particularly at curves
and especially at track junctions -- the least of which is increased wear,
and the worst of which is, in certain unfortunate situations, widely
scattered metal.
Carleton
In a message dated 2001-03-08 23:50:26 Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
2001-03-08
Louis,
Would they really refer to it as 1435 mm or more likely 143 cm? Would that
5 mm really make a difference, especially in common speech? I always
thought the French spoke more in centimetres instead of millimetres.
Do you know any Railroad people who you can ask what the track pitch is?
Han,
I don't think the BWMA actually states that the French use the term 4 pieds
8-1/2 pouces, but what they are trying to say is the French and others use
the same gauge as the British do and what ever they call it in millimetres,
it is still an imperial gauge. But, their lack of telling the whole story,
like not mentioning that livre and pfund are 500 g and not 454 g, or that
German pipe thread pitches may be copies of imperial sizes and the names are
imperial, but those are just trade names that don't reflect actual
dimensions. I'm sure Germans know as much about imperial as Americans know
about metric.
By withholding key information they let their followers draw their own
conclusions. But, if the conclusions are ever proved wrong, the BWMA can
say we never said it was so, we just said it was such and such. It was
others who concluded wrong.
They are not lying, just using deception to their advantage. They know
their followers mentality and use it to their fullest. Ignorance of the
masses is their ally, and they know it.
John
