One bee in my bonnet is the fact that technology and technology transfer in the economic history of the country has been underrated, and there are all sorts of examples of the things you were talking about. Railways are just one part of that particular story. There are mining, forestry, some of these major industries. They don't have a heritage value in the mindset of far too many people. When you go to a place like the U.K., you see all sorts of artifacts from the industrial age being preserved, but we're not doing that here. My own view is that we need to work on that point.
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