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...going insane in that room," says "Roach" Brown. A onetime street hustler convicted of murder, he was talking about his solitary confinement after a 1968 riot at the Lorton Reformatory near Washington, D.C. Brown lost track of time-first the date, then the day of the week, eventually even night and day. "I used to talk to myself and laugh and cry," he remembers. "I wanted someone to see me, to say they cared." Finally, one day, the sliding panel in his cell door clicked open, a hand reached in with two packs of cigarettes plus a ration of candy...
Like some European and Canadian trains, the Auto-Train hauls passengers and their autos in separate coaches. Manned by crews from the Seaboard Coast Line and the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac, the 400-passenger train takes 15 hours to make the 1,000-mile trip from Lorton, Va., to Sanford, Fla., which is a few miles from Walt Disney World. One-way fare is $190 for a car and two people, and $20 extra for each additional person. Passengers ride in reclining chairs in domed coaches, see up to two free movies and eat two free meals. The menu frequently...
Because the train is often booked well in advance, Garfield plans to add a second train on the Lorton-to-Sanford run. In addition, he is considering putting on a train from Cincinnati to Florida. With that, travelers from the Midwest can drive to Cincinnati and load themselves and their cars on a train, and avoid the high cost of renting a car during the peak seasons in Florida...
...designed by a professional forger, decorated by a two-man team composed of a thief and a murderer, and built by laborers on a wage scale that ranged from $1.20 to $7.70 a month. Its 1,000-odd congregation: inmates of the District of Columbia Reformatory (for men) at Lorton...
Chaplain Breitfeller says that everyone at Lorton worked on the project in one way or another from October 1956 to last week's dedication. His first recruit was one Farmer C. Thomas, doing a 17-year stretch for forging $100 bills, who had once taken a mail-order course in architectural engineering. When the priest asked him to design the chapel, Thomas, an atheist, protested that he had never been in a church in his life. Under Father Breitfeller's influence and instruction, he became a Catholic...