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I get very apprehensive as I get to know people are loosing their jobs. Of course, any industrial (but now even agricultural) manufacturer will think of switching to be just a storehouse of chinese goods (and produce). I know this is not quite the case for the Railway Industry. It is difficult to realize there were so many names in the Railway Industry: ASEA and Brown Boveri, AEG, SLM, Oerlikon; all these disappeared to be swallowed by a previously marginal Company also know n as Montreal Loco Works and later Bombardier. The fact is that the national heritage of these Companies was lost on the altar of globalization. In Italy there is still Ansaldo-Breda, with a healthy portfolio of orders, but for how long? And believe it or not, I wanted to talk about Bombardier's last jewel: "ZEFIRO" high speed train. Maybe another time. Good bye for now. One positive thing I can do is praying for those workers.
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