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Two parallel lies about never meeting, proven wrong by every horizon.
means The pair of parallel steel rails a train's wheels ride on, spaced a fixed distance apart (the gauge) to keep it running straight and stable.
from "Track" comes from Old French "trac," meaning a trail or set of footprints — something followed. "Train," from Latin "trahere," "to pull or draw," first meant the dragging tail of a gown before it came to mean a string of railway carriages pulled along behind an engine. Put together in the railway age, "train tracks" literally names what it is: the trail left for the thing that pulls and is pulled.
- gauge standard
- 4 feet 8.5 inches, basically a Roman chariot width
- the hum
- you can hear a train before it is visible
- rail expansion
- steel tracks grow inches longer on hot days
- ballast purpose
- the gravel stops rails from sinking into mud