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...giant Penn Central, spectacular bankruptcy. Yet the railroads have become increasingly good at moneymaking service, using new specialized and electronic gadgetry that would baffle Casey Jones. For a closeup view of modern railroading, Associate Keith Johnson rode cab and caboose on the world's fastest freight train, Santa Fe's premium-rate Super C, Chicago to Los Angeles...
...Ketner, sporting bell-bottomed jeans stenciled with (missing male symbol)and (missing female symbol) symbols, says he likes working the Super C: "All you have to do is get on at the beginning and get off at the end of the run." The train pulls out past the Santa Fe's year-old Argentine sorting yard, equipped with one IBM System 360 Model 30 and two Honeywell DDP-516 computers, which have speeded up car movements through the yard by about 50%. Two delegations of Japanese railroadmen have inspected the new yard, and one print of a Santa Fe...
...assigned a return run within 16 hours their pay starts again The pay is good: the average on the Albuquerque division is more than $12,000 a year, with senior engineers making $18,000 easily. Trainmaster E.L. Kidd notes that practically all of the men who run the Santa Fe come from railroading families...
...ANGELES. We pull into the terminal at Hobart in southeastern Los Angeles, end of the 2,202-mile journey from Chicago. It has taken only 39 hours and 20 minutes, 40 minutes faster than scheduled - a trip faster than that of the Super Chief, the Santa Fe's crack passenger train. Twelve minutes after we stop, the first trailer has already been unloaded by a giant yellow straddle crane and driven away...
...under nose finally both pinon scruffy pine trees smelling like St. Peter's had a chance to visit Bishop Lamy's Romanesque cathedral and his private chapel, the quiet peace of the chapel was more an expression of personal faith, small moments of calm perception, at least in Santa Fe, today, the cathedrals are losing people, that day the bishop was in the middle of a sermon, through the door- in ?iam pacts above a straight line barreling protest or denial, when we are of the same humanity it is hard to deny each other "I make mistakes everyone does...