Of course our governors can encourage or mandate certain activities or stimulate or direct particular undertakings--land for railroad building in the 19th century, highway construction and space exploration in this one--but that's a far cry from directing the whole economy.

FORBES: Fact And Comment

And to do that, it's like building the Transcontinental Railroad.

WHITEHOUSE: Online Town Hall

We should not accept a school in South Carolina that was built in the 1800s, where kids are having to learn in trailers, and every time the railroad goes by the tracks, the building shakes and the teacher has to stop teaching.

CNN: Transcript of Thursday's Democratic presidential debate

As the railroad lovers rebuild their trains, work on Train World is building up a head of steam.

WSJ: Belgian Train Museum Had a Hard Time Getting on Track

When the railroad -- it's right next to a railroad, and when the train runs by, the whole building shakes and the teacher has to stop teaching for a while.

WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Press Conference

That will be done by building three pipelines, which will burrow under a highway and railroad.

FORBES: Mergers And Acquisitions