394 Thomas Quigley They are the veins of the earth,Civilization pulsing through their girth.They carry far and wide The very juices of life.52 Poets, painters and musicians celebrated railroads all over Europe. Brahms was impacted by trains as a man, and a musician. He embraced this technology’s strides forward and viewed them as they were intended: as mani-festations of progress, and as tools to assist him in his life’s actions. As a symbol of the industrial age, the train did not threaten Brahms. This composer, who used a formal, classical approach to his work, was comfortable with steam propelling him to whatever destination lay ahead.53 Alle einsteigen, bitte!52 Hungarian State Railways, in: Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_ State_ Railways>, 27.6.2011; poem from Sándor Petőfi: Költeményi, Budapest 1985; English translation quoted in Ivan T. Berend: History Derailed. Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century, Berkeley et al. 2003, p. 151. 53 I wish Prof. Dr. phil. Kinzler the same comfortable experience as he takes his seat on Life’s train, and steams off to his retirement.