It was to be 450 feet long, that's as long as 22 railroad cars put together!
A steel bar used, usually in pairs, as a track for railroad cars or other wheeled vehicles.
Think of it as a railroad car hurtling down the line at the same time that attendants scramble to hitch on the wheels and lay the track.
To that generation, the formal equality of an identical railroad car meant progress.
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