Economy

A lot of stuff, commerce, big things, travel on these heavy metal cars on down the rails,
filled with cargo - I'm just saying.

Oh the rails, if they could only speak.
A Buster Keaton, would be the silent actor
who with the aid of moving pictures
indicated, these rails, these trains,
man oh man, this stuff could be dangerous.

Well, quite frequently I visit the old town
where every Saturday they run the old
Steam Engine that puffs and groans
And could never reach all the towns
no matter its force, it was too slow,
A oneway track on which it traveled
that meant so much to that old town's
creation.

Buster Keaton on top of the old train
building up speed, the train sputtering
spitting out all the coal that could burn from it's engine
it had for speed as it
approached a tunnel built within a mountain
made of rock

You duck, you feel firsthand the vibrations
of steel against steel

And yet, it's a silent movie

And you think, what holds that train to the track
through curves in the rail, how quickly could it stop

What did it take to build those rails
laid into the ground with perpendicular
wood planks

nailed down with steel ties
and widths in their curvature
that match the trains wheels
so that the train stays safely
upon its track

Isn't that important
it goes without saying

One might suppose