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George Whistler

American engineer

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railroad gauges in Russia

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    In railroad: The railroad in continental Europe

    …5-foot (1,524-mm) gauge that Major George Whistler of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad proposed for Russia was the same as the regional “Southern” gauge adopted by John Jervis for the South Carolina Railroad in 1833.

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