Word: amtrak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Amtrak from New Haven took a particularly unattractive route through Connecticut to the city. Edward carried his two monogrammed duffle bags overarm across the terminal platform to the overcrowded taxi stands outside. He waited in the cold, watching his own breath diffuse the orange glow of sodium street lamps. God they're ugly, he thought. New York City makes me sick...
Speculation shifted. Perhaps the note was a cover for someone with a more personal grudge against Amtrak, the Sunset Limited or someone on that doomed train. In Hyder people wondered about a suspicious brush fire that had threatened a wooden railroad bridge, and a stick of dynamite that had turned up unclaimed in an Exxon station men's room nearby. In downtown Phoenix, authorities foiled two men who may have been up to no good with a railroad device called a derailer. National attention focused more on notices recently posted by Amtrak announcing its intention to end direct service...
...Amtrak's Sunset Limited was en route from Miami to Los Angeles with 268 people aboard when it derailed in the middle of the night on a remote stretch of track in Arizona. The casualties: one crew member dead, a hundred people injured. Evidence quickly led investigators to pronounce the crash no accident: two rails were found to have been deliberately uncoupled; and a message was found at the crash site from the so-called Sons of the Gestapo--a previously unknown group--that assailed the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, as well as the agencies...
Sabotage may have caused an Amtrak train to derail in Arizona Monday morning. Two notes, from a group calling itself the "Sons of the Gestapo," said the tampering had been done in "retaliation for Waco and the siege of Ruby Ridge." One person was killed and 65 wounded as several cars left the tracks and fell 30 feet down a desert ravine 60 miles southwest of Phoenix. Engineers report seeing something on the tracks just before the accident. Local authorities say 29 rail spikes that fasten the track to the cross-ties had been removed from a 19-foot section...
...that wild and crazy Speaker of ours--if Gingrich weren't the second most powerful person in the country. Attention-deficit disorder and franchising your name while it's hot are troubling characteristics in someone who is speed-cutting $200 billion from such programs as Medicaid, Head Start, Amtrak, public television, water quality and air-traffic control. Many citizens don't think these cuts make sense at all, but all citizens should wonder whether it isn't reckless to make them while making a personal fortune at the same time. Being Speaker used to be a full-time...