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...forced to watch obese people struggle to lose as much weight as possible, or midgets marry normal sized people. While this can be entertaining when taken in small doses, the current state of television leaves me feeling like I’ve gotten aboard a sadistic freight train, bound for—eventually—live gladiatorial fights to the death (which would actually be really cool...
...from Orlando, Fla., to Los Angeles, has yet to arrive on time this year, rolling in as much as 40 hours late. Amtrak had to fly one near mutinous trainload of passengers to their destination when the Limited fell behind, leaving customers and Amtrak fuming. "There are other freight tracks we operate over that are busy," says Amtrak spokesman Mark Magliari, "but none...
...Railroad executive vice president John Koraleski faces his customers these days, he prefers to stay on his feet rather than sit in one place, he says, "because it's harder to hit a moving target." It has been that kind of year for UP, the nation's No. 1 freight carrier, which moves millions of tons of coal, lumber, automobiles, corn--you name it--each...
...Civil War with a handful of tracklayers, helped open up the frontier West and has since grown into a $12 billion-a-year colossus with 48,000 employees and 33,000 miles of track crisscrossing 23 Western states. Today UP handles some 30% of the nation's rail freight traffic. But during the past year, the legendary railroad has been groaning under the weight of embarrassing logistical breakdowns...
...seized by police in a town near the Yugoslav-Bulgarian border. He had been chatting up a fellow passenger in French, and he believes that her boyfriend complained to a cop. Murthy was kept in a room in the train station for 72 hours and shipped out on a freight car. "There was no going back to communism after that," he says...