A Jorge Luis Borges parody lifted off my hard disk...
According to 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia,' the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge, railway rolling stock may be categorised as follows:
- Stock used to transport the Emperor.
- Scrapped stock.
- Stock suitable for branch lines.
- The stock you rode in last week.
- Stock that reminds you of your first train ride.
- Stock that foamers foam over.
- Stock running on foreign gauges.
- Stock not included in this list.
- Stock you have forgot about.
- Stock for carrying goods.
- Stock too light for today's jobs.
- Somebody else's stock.
- Stock that has just derailed.
- Stock too far away to tell what it is.