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...rabbit" is a mechanical replica of a rabbit which runs on a track on the rail. The rabbit is used to start a race between greyhounds, a race which happens ten times nightly at Wonderland in Revere; a race that sends hundreds of people home mumbling that the "rabbit" had been slowed down of sped up; a race that brings thousands of people off their seats yelling at the top of their lungs for a dog that runs as fast as their bigger counterparts--the horses...
Bradley's first priority is to build the rapid transit system that auto-happy, smog-ridden Los Angeles lacks. "I already have my shovel," he says, vowing to begin construction within 18 months. He is willing to start with a piecemeal system. "We could use rail to begin with and then go on to the more sophisticated 21st century types of transportation as they are developed...
...grain harvests in U.S. history and an unprecedented demand by European countries for American produce. The big surge of new orders further clogged U.S. harbors with ships, delaying unloading of grain-laden hopper cars even more. Then Mother Nature stepped in, sending the Mississippi over its banks and disrupting rail operations throughout the Midwest...
Even without this spring's peculiar catastrophes, there might still have been a rail capacity crisis. Simply put, the roots of the big back-up are a shortage of railroad grain cars and the inefficient methods by which those already in service are operated. The railroads are trying to remedy the first problem by ordering record numbers of grain cars...
Only time will tell what the railroads can do to cut through the maze of Government and union rules (for example, laws that prohibit rail crews from working more than twelve hours a day even with overtime) that prevent the most efficient use of cars. A consortium of railroaders, union leaders, elevator operators and farm economists who met at the Grain Movement '73 Conference in Chicago last week placed most of the blame for the jam on the Federal Government for overloading the rails with the Russian grain. They think new laws are needed to modernize and better coordinate...