Word: amtraks
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...trains were traveling on parallel tracks that merged to cross the Gunpowder River bridge north of Baltimore. Amtrak's twelve-car Washington-to- Boston Colonial, carrying 616 passengers, was speeding along at 105 m.p.h. or more. A Conrail train, consisting of three engines, was headed for Harrisburg, Pa. After the Conrail engineer apparently failed to heed a "distant signal" alerting him to slow down, he was unable to respond to a second stop signal and slid directly into the path of the onrushing Amtrak. The passenger train slammed into the rearmost Conrail engine, which exploded. The Amtrak engine caught fire...
...good advice. Yes, amid the screams and the shouting of the worst accident in Amtrak history--last week's crash of the Boston-bound "Colonial"--people were actually elbowing one another to get to their luggage...
...Amtrak official was supposed to contact passengers during the night to discuss individual problems. But no one called me. I only found out from the local news that passengers would be transported by bus from the front of the hotel the following morning. Twenty-eight hours after I was to have arrived, I walked into my Quincy House dorm room...
...other $22 billion would come in part from gimmicks that the White House used to call revenue enhancements. One proposed strategy is the sale of Government-owned assets to private investors. Among items that could make it to the auction block are the Amtrak rail system and several regional power- marketing administrations, which sell electricity to local utilities. Reagan is putting forward a plan in which the Government would sell $8 billion worth of the loans it has made to students, small businesses and other debtors. Private investment companies would buy the loans and then collect the interest and principal...
...bought the Hampton Roads, a car with two staterooms, observation room, kitchen pantry and crew's quarters. He sold it last year, but missed it so much that he bought another much like it, and now owns five other cars, including a Union Pacific diner. Given ten days' notice, Amtrak is happy to move a private varnish almost anywhere on its tracks. The price, however, is a tad higher than a first-class ticket. It cost Businessman Gardner more than $14,500 in fees to transport his car from Milwaukee to California and back again in June. Popular runs include...