Word: amtrak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high-speed trains like those in Japan and France, Amtrak would have to lay hundreds of miles of expensive track. Instead the railroad is testing this new fast train, the X2000, on loan from Swedish State Railways, which can use existing tracks. Wheels on opposite ends of each car that steer independently and a computerized hydraulic system that tilts the carriage let the train take curves at high speed...
...last week. A strike brought most of the country's vast railroad network to a stop, idling three General Motors plants, stranding goods and produce on their way to market and even causing the cancellation of a performance by the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Outside the Northeast, Amtrak passengers scrambled for rental cars and airline tickets as service that normally runs along freight lines was disrupted. The strike, however, was temporarily ended 48 hours after it began when Congress approved a bill calling for an arbitrator to settle the disagreement...
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...Fund extended unemployment benefits to the jobless, and pay for them by cutting fat in other federal programs like Amtrak and government pensions...
...derailment, near Camden, S.C., injured at least 78 passengers. It was the worst Amtrak accident since 1987, when 16 were killed in a wreck in Chase, Md., and is the nation's eighth train wreck in two months. The cause of the disaster is still unknown, but officials from the National Transportation Safety Board suspect a faulty switch on the track. Declared New York passenger Ann Jo Rob: "This was my first time on a train. And this is my last time...