Word: railings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when friends with some investment capital persuaded him to head up the project. Bankers refused the group additional money. As Garfield recalls: "The reaction we got was 'Who would start a railroad in the year 1969?' " But even as major cities like Dallas were losing rail passenger service, Garfield and his associates then turned to the public, sold 700,000 shares of common stock at $10 a share to buy equipment. Thus they are launching their operation debt-free. The Seaboard Coast Line provides the crews, maintenance and track for this lavish overland cruise...
Breakfast in Bed. Besides its obvious convenience, Auto-Train promises to be, well, almost half the fun. In an age when rail passengers count themselves lucky if they can get stale sandwiches and warm soft drinks, the Auto-Train will seem like Queen Elizabeth 2 on wheels. For adults, there will be cocktails and complimentary hors d'oeuvres in each of the 13 full-dome coaches. The kids will be entertained with cartoons and a G-rated movie. At 9 p.m., a sitdown buffet will be served (Beef Wellington or lobster), followed by another movie for the grownups...
...Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen was free to strike last week as Government-imposed restraints expired. Though a strike that would snarl the nation's rail system is possible, the indications are that the signalmen will await the outcome of contract talks involving the larger shopcraft unions before pressing their demands. They want at least a 54% increase in their $3.78 an hour wage over three years...
According to the Cambridge Fire Department, the train became disabled at 2:16 p.m. and sparks from the third rail set fire to several piles of rubbish along the tracks...
THEY had rebelled, the men of cell block D told prison officials and negotiators, to protest their anonymity, to rail against their status as faceless numbers. During the Attica uprising, a few of them fleetingly achieved that goal when they appeared on TV screens. Two of their stories...