One of the key points of the "debunking" seems to itself make a logical error: > The eventual standardization of railroad gauge in the U.S. was due far less to

One of the key points of the "debunking" seems to itself make a logical error: > The eventual standardization of railroad gauge in the U.S. was due far less to a slavish devotion to a gauge inherited from England than to the simple fact that the North won the Civil War and, in the process, rebuilt much of the Southern railway system to match its own But the article earlier states that the North won the Civil War because of the logistical superiority of its rail lines that had settled on using the English standard gauge. Even if the South had settled on a single alternative gauge, they would have been unable to easily acquire rail equipment from abroad without added expense. Snopes' attempt at debunking achieves the opposite in my reading.