French Choo Choos Are Too Big

[MTI]

A French Railway Company Ordered Hundreds Of Trains That Are Too Big

[Stoney]

Power Generation business and NOT their Railway business!

Sounds just like the French...except they haven't figured out how to blame the AMERICANS for their FUBAR!

[spdrun]

Amtrak also screwed up in a similar manner. The Acela trains were built 4" too wide -- didn't actually affect platform compatibility, but it limited their ability to tilt around curves, which made speeds slower than intended.

[tjts1]

Its all about girth

[elchivito]

How we love to make fun of our historically most staunch allies.

[Botnst]

Who is 'we'?

Remember NASA not converting measurements from scientists (SI Units) so the engineers could use them (American customary units) and a Mars mission went astray?

Hell, it ain't rocket science.

[cmac2012]

Indeed it isn't.

And let me add, in reference to the OP, Mon Dieu!

[Diesel911]

And, then there is the US DOD.

[Jorn]

In Amsterdam they build a state of the art hospital back in the 80's with sliding doors to narrow for hospital gurneys...

[TwitchKitty]

" blaming the previous conservative administration of course."

Of course. How could they? Obviously Obama's fault.

How many frenchmen does it take to widen a train station?

[Idle]

Back in the 70's and 80's China built a massive iron and steel mill. It was built next to a gas field so it would have all the power it needed. The gas field was the big deal and the real savings would come from not building a pipeline to the plant.

The thing was so large that it took 20 years to build. By then the gas field was depleted and they had to lay pipelines and bring in gas from other areas to run the place.

[Jorn]

Originally Posted by Idle

Back in the 70's and 80's China built a massive iron and steel mill. It was built next to a gas field so it would have all the power it needed. The gas field was the big deal and the real savings would come from not building a pipeline to the plant.

The thing was so large that it took 20 years to build. By then the gas field was depleted and they had to lay pipelines and bring in gas from other areas to run the place.

Communist economics.

[t walgamuth]

Originally Posted by Jorn

Communist economics.

Is this tongue in cheek? Because it seems to me a lack of hard information about the size of the gas field might be more the problem than the economic system.

OTOH a free enterprise system might have insisted on having the information before beginning construction.

20 years is a long time to build a factory, no matter how big.