Word: railroads
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Founded 103 years ago on the grounds of Railroad Magnate Leland Stanford's trotting-horse farm, the university is in the midst of a five-year centennial celebration that marks its rise from a modest regional school to the very top ranks of American higher education. The ascension of this brash Western upstart has come as both a shock and a challenge to such Ivy League powerhouses as 352-year-old Harvard and 242-year-old Princeton, where the notion of academic endeavor is firmly associated with rigorous winters and a stern Puritan work ethic. Reflecting the early contempt heaped...
Perhaps the most ironic aspect of the meeting was the presence of Kent Hance, a member of the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates oil production in that beleaguered state. While Hance, 45, had no mandate or inclination to negotiate production cuts on the part of Texas or the U.S., he went to the meeting to "share our experience ((and)) give them our insight on how prices could be stabilized." Texans, who have felt neglected by the rest of the U.S. in recent years, sometimes like to point out that if their state were a member of OPEC, it would rank...
...know, this is the prettiest railroad country in the world," says Woody Vinson, who by this time certainly should know. He is gazing over a plate of Traditional Trainman's French Toast, past the plastic yellow rose, out the window of the dining car of the California Zephyr as it leaves Salt Lake City behind and makes for the mountains. The tables are full of people ignoring their breakfast, a comment less on the quality of the food than on the galactic beauty of the scene outside. Vinson and his wife Lois are on their way home to Memphis...
Private companies are beginning to take advantage of the crowded roads and skies, and are buying up cars and rights-of-way to offer a plush alternative to a traffic jam. The Cape Cod & Hyannis Railroad carries 100,000 passengers between Boston and the Cape from May through October. While motorists on the single major highway are bumper to bumper, passengers can recline in the velvety Presidential parlor car, built in 1925. Next May in California, the Napa Valley Wine Train is expected to begin shuttling wine lovers from vineyard to vineyard in vintage railcars...
Bradley delivered his sought-after endorsement in an old railroad terminal at Liberty State Park, in clear view of the Statue of Liberty. The terminal, now a museum, was used at the turn of the century by immigrants who came through Ellis Island...