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...admonished his high school classmate Virginia Williams in front of the white clapboard railroad depot. "And if you get in trouble, don't call me." Then Virginia, her husband Frank and 380 other Plains folk boarded the 18 red-blue-and-silver cars of the Peanut Special-an Amtrak train leased for fun and bound for glory. At exactly 1 p.m., as Jimmy stood in the windy 10° F. weather, waving a gloved hand and flashing the famous teeth, the Peanut Special began to pull away from Plains-the first passenger train to have made a stop there...
...campaign headquarters in the Plains rail depot last June, had started arranging the bash. "Jimmy told me he was going to win, so I figured we had to hire a train to take Plains to Washington," said Maxine. Now she had the train-and an $85,000 bill from Amtrak. As she settled into her seat, the ample Maxine also had a bottle of Taittinger champagne, a "pair of thermal underwear that would stretch around a live oak tree," and a new lowcut, black Inaugural dress. "We're going to tear up Pennsylvania Avenue," she chirped...
Reviving Railroads. On land, Adams' positions and records are even firmer. It was he who in 1970 did most to push through the legislation creating Amtrak as a first step in reviving the nation's dying railroads. In 1973 he was the primary author of the Conrail plan, merging the bankrupt Penn Central and other roads into a Northeastern network. He favors continued regulation of the trucking industry and−most important to big-city dwellers−he believes in improvements in mass transit...
Daniel Wright, AmTrak station supervisor, said yesterday the bulk of holiday train traffic will be heading south, "It's hard to tell the amount of students that will be passing through here, we get a very large number on any holiday," said Wright, adding that, "Our busiest southern route is between Boston and Washington...
Reed is determined to maintain the improvement. One indication of his fierce pride in the railroad is a recent tiff with Amtrak, the Government-sponsored corporation that has taken over operation of most U.S. passenger trains. When it took over the Santa Fe's fabled Super Chief service from Chicago to Los Angeles, Amtrak kept the name but dropped the linen napkins and fresh-cut flowers that traditionally graced the dining car. John Reed, aghast at such a decline in standards, withdrew permission for Amtrak to continue calling the Super Chief by its proud old name...