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...most people, railroads mean passenger trains; they, after all, carry people. But most of the stock rattling and rumbling along U.S. tracks these days is hauling freight and is doing so, as TIME contributing editor Hugh Sidey reports in this issue, with surprising vigor. "A couple of years ago," says Sidey, "I began noticing brief newspaper items about various freight routes and companies. And they didn't mention government subsidies. Freight was making money...
...Amtrak opened its new speedster to the public, the Association of American Railroads announced that in theory at least, freight railroads are willing to cooperate with Amtrak to help make widespread high-speed passenger rail travel a reality. Amtrak is already moving ahead. This summer the company plans to test out a German train that can go up to 185 m.p.h. Amtrak plans to have 26 high-speed trains running...
...question is: is it the light of an onrushing freight train...
These efforts at prevention will not eliminate accidents, however. "One of the biggest fears I have now is highway and railroad spills," says Nicholas Crawford, director of the Center for Cave and Karst Studies at Western Kentucky. Two years ago, a freight train carrying hazardous chloroform jumped the tracks near Lewisburg, Tennessee. "If that train had derailed in Bowling Green, it would have been a catastrophe," Crawford says...
...formidable, considering the failings of Muller's text. The play itself seems to be another title to add to the growing number of plays aimed solely at examining tradition and modern society and then slowly destroying them. Disregarding fundamentals of plot and character, Hamletmaschine barrels on like a renegade freight train to a destination unknown. The program guide indeed forewarns us that the "production might be unpalatable to people accustomed to traditional forms of theater," but the disclaimer does not excuse the play's lack of coherence and design...