Order of over-wide trains in France cost $20.5 billion

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France's national railway operator placed a $20.5 billion order for 2,000 new trains, only to discover that the locomotives were too wide to fit hundreds of stations. France must now spend $68 million to narrow train platforms.--Jim L Wilson and Rodger Russell. The week June 6, 2014 p. 6 Luke 14:28 (HCSB)…