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Now BRS has won the approval of the Federal Aviation Administration to market chutes for small general-aviation planes such as single-engine Cessnas. At $5,495, the product is a bit pricey, considering that the typical Cessna sells for about $15,000. Yet many fliers may not put a...
Happily, most of Horn's eccentric machines aren't so overblown as this. The image of sex-as-mechanism is one of the oldest tropes in modern art. A century has passed since Joris-Karl Huysmans, the "decadent" novelist, invited the reader to see the workings of an engine as...
In the Chicago offices of the Santa Fe, they will tell you that "the engine of our growth for the next several years" is going to be intermodal traffic, which means the use of truck trailers and special containers that can be easily exchanged between rail and truck chassis. Santa...
The railroads have computerized terminals and yards so that every engine and car is shown on a screen somewhere. Union Pacific dispatcher John Cazahous in Omaha, Nebraska, once spotted 14 runaway freight cars from another line 1,500 miles away in Los Angeles. Within 11 minutes he had alerted California...
The healthy freights are pumping their good fortune back into the economy. Toward the end of the year, the first eight of 350 new alternating-current (AC) traction locomotives will be delivered to the Burlington Northern. The order, worth $675 million to General Motors and Siemens AG, is the largest...