Rail
"[...] The rail is the mechanical outcome of an uncomprimising desire for control. Just as accelerated movement is the primary raison d'être, the basic function of the railway, making movement controllable is its most distictive, characteristic -neither its better nor worse- feature.
[...] It generates a longing for a world on its right track, forming the appropriate philosophical methaphors and artistic allegories..."
Hollow and Broken - A State of the World