the title, and the author, are uninformed railways are the most cost effective and resiliant means of terrestrial transportation. Rail networks have continued to function under the worst conditions of war and economic hardship. Railways main asset durring better times are there rights of way, which, when you look into it, exist in a special category of "no, No, NO, you cant move it or build on it, block it, or anything else" no matter how dissused it looks. which is to say that railways exist outside of time, and are in essence a physical manifestation of pragmatism, realism, whatever you want to call it, in these easy times, when people flirt with the "whens" and "whys", "wouldn't it be nices's" rather then songs extolling the great strength and worth of railroad ,trains, and the excitement that comes from people standing up under adversity and thriving get you some train songs in your feed, see what I mean