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Trains and economics of the modern world are linked at the hip, as are almost all transportation issues. The services rendered while being talked about many times as commodities, are actually in the realm of strategic services. To give a bit of observation in this area. Only wealthy countrys can develop railroads and improved transportation systems beyond a footpath either by private or public action. This brings into focus that some parts of the world and in particular the West and parts of the Far East that are indeed very wealthy. The lessons of history in this area can be most instructive. No economic power in the modern world (definition post 1770) has been able to rise without improved or modern transportation networks. This combination applies to systems going either by water as in canals and ocean routes, overland as in railroads and roadways, or in the air in air routes (maybe even space routes). Finance, payment, economic and political systems are indespensable to any of this happening or working. One of the saddest and most tragic occurances in this modern world is these same dynamics that are a driving forse in the improvement of life, have also been party to some of the most horrific and terrible wars in history. This warring activity often refered to by Generals of the Army Douglas McAurther and George Marshall, as mankinds greatest folly can never be far from the modern worlds greatest technical and peacefull triumphs. The trouble of all this seems tobe that the modern world kept much of the old worlds follies but on a vastly larger scale of not just states at war, but of entire populations and systems in protracted conflict. John Donne, an English poet and thinker put it best when he wrote No man is an island but is a part of the main. Therefore send not form whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. May we of this forum never fear from discussion of this topic. Courage to know whom the bell tolls for is no reason to desire to be the one that it tolls for.
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