Word: conrail
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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...
...collision raised serious issues for the National Transportation Safety Board, most of them focusing on the Conrail train crew. Who deliberately disabled an annoying whistle in the locomotive that would have warned of the danger? Why was a bulb missing on a critical cab signal light? The most important long-term question: Why are freight and high-speed passenger operations allowed to mix in the nation's busiest transportation corridor...
...spent the rest of the night watching T.V. and listening to the radio, trying to find out exactly what had happened to Train 94. There was no briefing for the passengers. I didn't know for sure that the train I was riding in had hit three Conrail locomotives until I talked with my parents on the telephone later that night...
Norfolk Southern, the nation's fourth largest railway, conceded defeat last week in its 18-month-long bid to buy Conrail, the now profitable Government- owned rail system. Early last year Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole had selected Norfolk Southern as the best qualified of 15 bidders to buy Conrail's freight-hauling business for $1.2 billion. Last February the Senate approved, and the much bruited merger seemed to be on track...
Then came trouble. Critics in the House of Representatives argued vociferously that the price for Conrail was too low and that a public offering of Conrail stock would reap much more than the private railroad was prepared to offer. Norfolk's concession puts Conrail back on the siding...