Also consider the era BART was being proposed. The ye olde conventional train is the last thing that was considered futurist and thus something they wanted to pursue. I think at least part of the motivation for indian gauge, along with what I believe is a true story about GGB wind concerns, was just to be different, and that unconventional approach would be sold as "novel". The flat wheels were part of this thinking as well.
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