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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [QB] Messrs. Harris and Helfner, Last week I was out in CT for, first, my 60th Reunion (held one year late) at South Kent, then to my Sister in Greenwich. Her lines of thought are much the same as are yours. Now regarding The War, let's say Ruskies and Yukes are at a stalemate. Russia now knows they are not going to capture Ukraine in its entirety, but can hold 'em off in the East and in the process, make Ukraine a landlocked sovereignty just as are many another Eastern European states. So the only way out is a negotiated settlement. Despite Zelensky's comment that "Henry the K" is thinking 1938 (Chamberlain's "appeasement" to Hitler), both parties will have to give up something. In the case of Russia, a cease fire and reparations, but Ukraine to give up the lands Russia has captured and accept they are a landlocked state. Now Ukraine has valuable agricultural exports such as wheat that represent exports paid for in "hard" currencies such as $ and €, but also on a humanitarian level, "Feeding the world". Finally to get to what we largely gather here to discuss - railroads. Except for one major problem, the "products of agriculture" could be shipped West by rail to "free" European ports such as Danzig (whoops, Gdansk in newspeak), Antwerp, and Hamburg. The problem of course is that Ukrainian railroads are Russian gauge and Western European are Standard. The thought of sustained transloading at the Ukraine-Poland border is simply unthinkable to me, but will this be an invitation to "Standardize" the Ukrainian gauge, or at least enough to reach the agricultural fields? Thoughts, anyone? addendum: I have now learned that such is actively under consideration (paywalled; but enough is available to draw such conclusion): [URL=https://www.railpage.com.au/news/s/ukrainian-standard-gauge-railway-plan#:~:text=The%20Ukrainian%20rail%20network%20currently%20uses%201%20520,EU%20countries%20use%201%20435%20mm%20standard%20gauge.]Railpage.com[/URL] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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