Word: rail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nowhere. Hundreds of Englishmen exist for the sole purpose of keeping branch lines running, raising cash to rent doomed sections from Railway Boss Beeching, making weekend pilgrim ages to such officially abandoned routes as the Bluebell ("Nowhere to Nowhere") loop in Sussex. Despite a petition signed by 25,000 rail buffs, the Society for the Reinvigoration of Unremunerative Branch Lines in the United Kingdom (SRUBLUK) failed to keep open the scenic reach between Westerham and Dunton Green in Kent last October...
...punctured in several places to give Maria air-into the corridor and returned to his compartment. Police and border guards, working methodically through the car, looked at Bernd's papers; one guard asked where his luggage was. Bernd said he had shipped it on to West Germany by rail express. The guards glanced casually at the suitcase in the corridor, went on to the next...
...destruction. Durant, the head barber, runs his miniature community with a social-register sense of propriety. Certain customers get preference over others, and some are told, when they begin to realize they are being ignored, "Better go down the street. You got a good barber down towards the rail-road station." Those who finally make the inner circle are fitted for the symbol of acceptance--a $2 beer mug. It is a neat, compact little world, but Peter's fondness for a local loudmouth eventually blows it apart...
...commission's railroad and union members spent so much time sniping at each other that the report had to be written almost entirely by five nonindustry members, led by peppery Manhattan Lawyer Simon H. Rifkind. The report hit hard at the rail unions by recommending the gradual elimination of over 40,000 freight-and yard-engine firemen-survivors of the era of steam locomotives who, at union insistence, still ride diesel engines. (Rifkind & Co. conceded, however, that firemen still provide a necessary margin of safety in the engines of highspeed passenger trains.) The commission urged that the railroads...
...several years, South Shore cities through which the MTA would pass have successfully opposed legislative action to extend the system. Quincy, Braintree, and other towns prefer no rail service at all to paying the share of the MTA's annual operating deficit that all cities on the line incur...