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...court battle, though, will not delay Conrail's debut. The consolidated system will stretch westward from the Eastern seaboard through 15 states to St. Louis, hauling more than a third of Northeastern freight. During the next decade, Conrail would spend $1.84 billion in taxpayers' money and another $4.2 billion of its own earnings and funds from private investors for rehabilitation of the badly maintained and accident-prone system; it would lay 540 miles of new track a year and replace 3.4 million ties (in June, derailment of seven cars of an Erie-Lackawanna freight train in Scranton...
...auto advocated by Ronald Uher of Crystal Lake, Ill., for example, could either hook up to overhead electric trolley lines or run on its own power. Other suggestions focused on improving mass-transit finances. Several people proposed that municipal buses, trolleys and subway cars earn additional Income by hauling freight in off-hours. To produce perhaps $1.5 million in annual revenues, Benjamin Lawless of Washington, D.C., urged that a grain crop be grown on the 5 million acres of federal land bordering the interstate highways. Then there was San Diego Bus Fleet Owner Jack Haberstroh's idea: he charges...
...which forbids shippers to use low-cost foreign vessels to move goods from one U.S. port to another; misnamed fair-trade laws that permit manufacturers to prevent retailers from cutting prices on brand-name products; agricultural "marketing orders" that restrict the supply of oranges, tomatoes and other products; and freight, regulations that force many trucks to return empty from long-distance trips, although they could carry cargo on the backhauls...
...closer. I had stopped drinking at two beers and was further from comprehension than if I had matched Nick's pace. Why had he left? The day was nearing 22 straight hours of highway unraveling followed by the unraveling of events at The Wheel. The sound of an approaching freight train rent the air, rising above the flailing of rain. That's the sound people hear when the funnel is about to scoop them up. It turned out to be only a train...
...Railway Association also proposed 16 new or improved passenger routes between Northeastern and Midwestern cities. Between New York and Washington, for example, all freight traffic would be removed from the main Penn Central line to track now owned by other companies in order to make way for speedier, more frequent passenger service. New trains would make the 224-mile run in 2½ hr.-30 min. faster than the present Metroliners. The alternative to its plan, says the association, is nationalization of the seven roads that Conrail would...