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...goods on schedule, the situation has become dire. UPS, the huge parcel service, was recently forced to shift some shipments to trucks. Dow Chemical, which supplies, among other things, chlorine for water utilities, suspended operations at a Michigan plant until the distribution logjam clears. Passenger trains are affected too. Amtrak's Sunset Limited, which makes a thrice-weekly run from Orlando, Fla., to Los Angeles, has yet to arrive on time this year, rolling in as much as 40 hours late. Amtrak had to fly one near mutinous trainload of passengers to their destination when the Limited fell behind, leaving...
Customers from Dow Chemical, UPS and Amtrak to a small New Orleans molasses shipper and a Houston creosote supplier have watched in frustration as delays on UP's rails caused their products to pile up in railyards and ports, arrive hours or days late and sometimes never get to the destination at all. UP has been paying a hefty price too: as its rails began backing up, the company's profits took a hit, falling to $323 million in the first half of 2004 from $717 million in that period a year...
...Brown to have a chance it will need Hartigan to have a monster game against a Crimson defense that will stack the box with four defensive linemen, three linebackers, two safeties, eight members of the Harvard marching band and a couple of hobos from the Providence Amtrak station...
What's changed: The government has spent more than $100 million on improving security on trains, including heightened surveillance of high-risk trains, tracks and rail yards. Amtrak passenger names are checked against government watch lists...
What hasn't: Amtrak doesn't screen passenger baggage for weapons. about 25% of Amtrak riders never show identification before they board the train. --By Nadia Mustafa