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Vicki and Sherie are in the process of transforming themselves into the "curious apparitions" that passengers on the Southwest Chief have been warned about. The performance that is about to begin is part of a project called "Apparitions and Amtrak," funded in part by a grant from the New Mexico Arts Division and the National Endowment for the Arts...
...favorite apparitions this way: "The Jester is a bedspread, some socks and curtains, beads and bells. Buttonface is pajamas, a favorite shirt, lots of buttons, a vegetable steamer, socks and an old cloth flag I used to fly in Arroyo Hondo. The apparitions are gentle reminders to the Amtrak passengers that dreams are important aspects of our lives...
...weeks after the Amtrak-Conrail collision outside Baltimore that claimed 16 lives, investigators from the Federal Railroad Administration had yet to find an equipment failure that would account for the tragedy. Instead, said FRA Administrator John Riley, the probe was focusing on the "human performance" of the train crews -- and the evidence was disturbing...
...starters, both trains were speeding: the Amtrak passenger train was 23 miles over its limit of 105 m.p.h., and the Conrail freight locomotives were traveling at 62 to 65 m.p.h., although a signal had warned the crew to slow down...
...World War II Resistance, and personally supervised a successful effort to cut through the red tape that had denied her resident status in the U.S. Although he has been unwilling to grapple with the controversy over his new budget plan, he was so moved by the stories of the Amtrak train wreck that he asked that some of those cited for performing heroic deeds be brought down this week for a photo session...