Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Earl of Dartmouth (1731-1801), was proud to lend his name to a colonial college where classroom supplies, according to local history, consisted of 500 gallons of New England rum. He would be proud as ever today. News reached the Dartmouth campus in Hanover, N.H., that a Canadian Pacific freight train had been derailed in nearby Vermont, capsizing untold thousands of cases of beer. One contingent of Dartmouth Indians made off with nearly 200 cases the first night, and a mob of them got away with 300 more the next night. The liberated liquid is now buried around campus...
...Your splendid summary of the 21st century railroad [Jan. 26] glossed over the incompetence and inadequate management of railroad passenger service. If Messrs. Saunders and Perlman would show the same attention to improving the lot of passengers as they obviously have shown to freight, America would enjoy a third service (to air and highway...
...crash site. As each piece of wreckage is found, it is plotted on the grid to establish the debris pattern that resulted from the crash, and detonation of the conventional explosives in each bomb. The collected debris will be shipped to the U.S. .in sealed containers for burial. The freight will be substantial. "Every piece of debris we've found so far is contaminated," reports Hunziker...
Expenses for the combined railroads are not likely to fall quickly. The bill for consolidating track and freight yards will amount to millions. And the Penn Central has also promised a $25 million loan to the New Haven Railroad to bail out its money-losing passenger services until the merged roads include the New Haven in their system. But eventual savings from joint operations may reach $100 million a year. And additional revenue sources are being tapped. Last week Perlman announced that a lease agreement had been signed with a British investment group which plans to build an office building...
...East. The Pennsy, in turn, has opened offices in seven European cities. The aim is to build up a business in containerized shipments that can be handled by rail after they are unloaded from ships. The U.S. railroads are pushing to establish a "land bridge" service by which freight bound between the Far East and Europe would travel by ship to the U.S., go by rail across the country, and on ships again to its final destination. The savings in time would be significant: 28 days from Japan to Europe by way of the land bridge v. 44 days...