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Any manufactured item that requires transport must be sized to fit the constraints of the transportation system it uses. To economically ship a large rocket across the country, the railroad was the only viable cost effective method.FACT: saying it's so doesn't make it fact nor does pics of vehicles retrofitted to fit on a train track. Let's see your sources that have the indisputable data to make this fact. Historical records, plans, patents etc. Otherwise, youre just another blow hard. Prove me wrong.
If railroads were twice as wide, the shuttle's SRBs could have been much larger, but they didn't need to be, because they were designed to provide specific lift requirements.
That doesn't mean they were designed without regard to how they could be transported, because that was part of the original design criteria.
Railroads have a close similarity with a typical wagon footprint, although it varied.
Unless there is a compelling reason to change something, people have a habit of doing things the way they were done before. Nearly all multiple horse drawn vehicles were two horses wide.
The Stockton and Darlington Railway was the first rail line built built with a standard gauge track width of 4 feet 8.5 inches, and that is the same standard used today.
George Stephenson, the creator of that railroad design, based the gauge on the width of wagon wheels in use at the time. Based on their propulsion, that didn't change much from the time of the Romans.
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I don't need it myself, see post#142