1.   The national railroad is doing a few trial runs to test new equipment.

2.   The creation of the national railroad system unified the country.

3.   Amtrak officials say the retrenchment amounts to a last-ditch attempt to maintain a national railroad system.

4.   And should it continue as a national railroad?

5.   Another dealer is JR East, which runs what used to be the national railroad in the Tokyo area.

6.   Any further cuts and it will cease to be a national railroad system, only a few isolated corridors of heavy travel.

7.   Finally, it has started a project with Deutsche Bundesbahn, the German national railroad, to lay fiber optic cable using the railway system.

8.   It also threatens to end funding for Amtrak -- the national railroad -- if a restructuring proposal fails in the House Transportation Committee.

9.   JR Tokai is the third company spun off from the former national railroad system to go public after East Japan Railway Co. and West Japan Railway Co.

10.   Krebs and the other proponents of a national railroad company are not the first railroad barons to dream of a transcontinental railroad.