Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David Wood flew to Lusaka, then chartered a plane into northern Zambia, landing at a missionary station and school a few miles from the Zaïre border. Here the transportation problem beset him too. The missionaries fed him and translated for him but balked at lending him a car: Spanish journalists the previous year had borrowed a local farmer's car, only to be arrested across the border in Zaïre and have the car destroyed. Consequently, Wood explored the nearby border roads to report on the strange victory march of the rebels in their victims...
...Car 0139 has a name, the "Pacific Cove." Bedroom A is a neatly designed nest for the bird of passage, with toilet, retractable washbasin and hot water; a clothes closet; a seven-foot chaise longue that converts at night into a comfortable bed; air conditioning and heating; a large window so clean it could pose for a Windex commercial; and a button to summon a. sure enough, smiling porter. There is red carpeting on the floor and even on the corridor walls of the 32-year-old, 91-ton Budd-built first-class car. There are privacy and freedom...
...Louisiana after a tragic love affair. A black businessman muses somberly on the humiliations that clouded his childhood. A retired railroad executive recounts the great train trips he has made around the world. An elderly waiter talks of the days when he and the rest of the dining-car crew on some routes had to sleep at night on the tables they had tended all day. (Now they usually sleep in extra berths...
...through the pristine glass there is that great swath of the United States, a land that can barely be glimpsed from the interstate highway or sensed from 35,000 ft. To be sure, the view from Bedroom A or the dome car exposes every automobile graveyard, garbage dump, trailer park, parking lot, drive-in, burger joint, shopping mall, sewage plant, forsaken factory, slum and rural hovel in the unwritten guidebook of desecrated America. Its obverse, as the Crescent weaves its whistling way south toward summer, is a varied, often startlingly beautiful landscape of feathery woods and forests, roses and rhododendrons...
After the train's first leg from New York, Southern puts its premier cru seal on the train at Washington by attaching a kitchen-dining car and installing its own crew. The train now has 13 cars, including four coaches, five sleepers and a lounge car with a master suite that boasts the only permanent rolling shower bath on American rails. In Atlanta in the morning, the overnight diner is replaced with a clean car, another crew, and a whole new cast of Pullman porters...