>>1699041>How did they solve it rather than moving shit between rolling stock at the border?You change bogies.
>>1699154>The Soviet bloc is intentionally that way because they didn't want trains full of krauts with Sturmgewehrs coming into their country.Meme. Russians adopted broad gauge during the empire. It was because some engineers felt that wider gauge allowed for more powerful locomotives that could safely pull heavier loads at higher speeds. After they figured out that wider gauges had no apparent advantages over narrower gauges, they persisted with it because that's what they were already building,
