The locomotive was used by Belgium's national rail company around 50 years ago.

The abandoned locomotive and carriage have become a popular attraction for photographers and adventurers

One delegation said that the Millennium Development Goals were a veritable locomotive of the global development agenda.

The train carriage and locomotive have been left to rot at a train yard in Belgium, attracting urban explorers

Every one of these circles is a cog, a stack of cogs, and this thing is as big as a steam locomotive.

With their glory days long gone, the train carriage and locomotive have been left to rot at a train yard in Belgium, where they have become a popular attraction for photographers and adventurers.

In Germany, the EU s economic locomotive, unemployment is down and business confidence is up. And throughout the EU, the positive effects of the enlargement strategy that has brought in 10 ex communist countries over the past three years looks to be generating a new self confidence.

Prospects for Japan acting as a global economic locomotive and of playing a role in poverty reduction and economic development are, for now, almost nil. Indeed, Japan's current growth is being driven overwhelmingly by trade with China a country with only one thirtieth of Japan per capita GDP!

It is thus important to ensure a positive interface and coherence between multilateralism and regionalism and an expeditious and meaningful outcome of the Doha work programme.15 South South trade cooperation is important, as growing South South trade provides an opportunity for developing countries to latch on to this rising locomotive of the South.

The communist Knight, the new caballero de la triste figura, a kind of enlightened idiot, blinded by his loyalty to the unreal and by his harsh political correctness, considers Lenin a new Moses. He rides the Rosinante of the Proletarian Force, falls in love with the dead Rosa Luxemburg in her role as Comrade Dulcinea and has intercourse with a locomotive.

By contrast, two years after the French and Dutch No votes, there is no sign of a Plan B, despite the claims of the French politicians who helped mobilize the No vote. Europe s Franco German locomotive has broken down and ratification has stopped, even though member states that had yet to ratify the treaty could have completed the process of ratification.

For too long, Europe and Japan have subordinated the quest for full employment to other goals, whether extremely low inflation (Europe) or avoiding the costs of a bubble economy (Japan). Convincing ordinary American voters that trade liberalization is a positive force will be easier when the US is not the only locomotive pulling world demand forward, and not the world's importer of last resort.

What makes monetary policy tricky at this point is that the German economy which has been Europe s locomotive during the current cyclical upturn may be reaching a turning point. Surveys of business and investor confidence have softened the respected IFO index of German business sentiment fell from 107.0 to 106.4 in Julyamp 45 amp 45 and the so called hard data industrial production, retail sales, etc.amp 45 amp 45 has been mixed.