Acquisitions Entry[]
The joke is that a clerical error or a misplaced decimal point is how we got Solo Nobre standard gauge rail, but the truth is simpler. Even before there was a Great Leader, the founding interests in Solo Nobre (the same that have come back to reclaim it) knew that the colony held great potential for military and economic interests. You need to move a lot of raw material, and also a lot of materiel.
All the old railways on Earth had a lot of nasty retrofits to deal with in the age of putting a squad of heavy mechs on the same freight train, but Solo Nobre’s railways were built that way from the ground up, with enormous trains to match. Rails set as wide as a lane of car traffic, locomotives as tall as an apartment block. I doubt Great Leader’s quest for complete orbital gun coverage of the city would have been remotely possible without our oversized railroads and engines. Helps that the vast majority of Solo Nobre was already flatter than hell to begin with, it’s a railroad dream. Trainspotters’ paradise. Nobody has photos of the giant war trains that rolled in from Eixo decades ago, but that’s a different subject.
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