Saw this in a recent
Simanitis Says blog. It's from a paper called
Reality Lost, that looks like it's worth reading (must download). The zones of reality modification:
What does it have to do with trains? Not much (other than drawing a fuzzy line below which we should not descend when trying to describe how things used to be done). Otherwise, something to think about, especially when reading news items from sources known to be biased to some degree.