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Article: For engineers, as the railways go, so goes Iraq.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Byline: Charles Levinson Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
BAGHDAD -- It's a little past 9 a.m. on a Tuesday, the height of the morning commute. But the platform at Baghdad's central rail station, which a few years back would have been bustling with activity, is abandoned.
Iraq's storied railways are a worthy barometer of progress in postwar Iraq. Much as the rings of a centuries old redwood reveal clues to a forest's past, Iraq's railroads offer traces of the forces and tumult that have wracked this region for much of the past century.
"This is among the great old companies of Iraq," says Salam Salom, the traffic and operations ...