Word: amtrack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family just gave you a brand new little sports car for your birthday, and you're just dying to bring it up to school and zip around Boston. No more trips home on Amtrack, no more mad dashes for the last subway out of Park St. You're a free spirit now, a real independent individual...
Within five minutes the Southern Crescent nudges slowly into sight. As the twelve-car Amtrack train sidles into the station, a gravelly voice on the platform speaker rasps out, "Southern Crescent, Amtrack train for New York, arriving from Washington, D.C. and points south, on Track 5. All aboard." In a rush the passengers grab their suitcases, shopping bags, and knapsacks and board the train. The engine starts up again and steam floats up to the steel rafters of the station. After a minute in a cramped tunnel, the train emerges into the early Sunday morning sunshine...
Bryant said Amtrack would "get every car we have on the tracks." He said the extra cars would be attached to existing trains...
...debut the third week of the strike, but the thrice-weekly tabloid, lacking Associated Press and United Press International service, has done little to relieve the news shortage. The 40 volunteers, working out of a vacant classroom where school desks substitute for work tables, have offered readers stories on Amtrack and the Gainesville Eight instead of concentrating on local news. The paper has been further handicapped by the nationwide shortage of newsprint, which has limited the press...