Word: railroads
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Yesterday the University oarsmen rowed eight miles. They went downstream to the railroad bridge and then up the four miles over the regular racing course. The flags were not in place so that no effort was made to keep to the Race Day course. No time was taken for the trial. Coach Haines kept them rowing an alternately high and low stroke, changing every half mile...
...tragedy in Madrid may have put an end to the railroad anachronism. The attack that killed some 200 innocents was cruelly simple. The perpetrators left backpacks full of explosives fitted with simple timers and walked away. "It's a load of rubbish to call it a sophisticated attack," says British security expert Michael Dewar. "You and I could do it." Some 10 million train and subway trips are taken every day in America. Amtrak shuttles 66,000 of those passengers, two-thirds of them through the target-rich northeast corridor. The Washington Metro moves 600,000 people near national monuments...
...want proof that America's railroads are back on track, take a look inside the Network Operations Center (NOC) of the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. (BNSF). Dispatchers at the railway's headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, sit hunched over computers 24/7, directing trains for the nation's second largest railroad and tracking shipments of everything from coal to Wal-Mart clothing. Nine megascreens monitor the flow of goods on 200,000 railcars across 33,000 miles of track--Chinese merchandise rolling east from California, Midwest grain heading west and then to Asia, FedEx packages crisscrossing the nation...
...been so successful that BNSF finds itself in a bit of a jam, with a shortage of workers. After years of cutbacks, BNSF plans to hire 1,600 employees this year and 1,000 more in each of the next five years. "I don't know if this is railroad's new Golden Age," says BNSF's boss, "but we haven't suffered the carnage of other businesses like steel and the airlines." Not that Rose doesn't dream big. Eventually, he says, the country's railroads won't be divided between East and West, and there will...
...Whatever the genes that produced him, Ted radiated a comic precocity. For the high school newspaper he wrote parodies of poems and contributed humorous drawings. At Dartmouth he stretched the limits of homework, writing a "book report" of the Boston & Maine Railroad timetable as if it were a modern novel: "Chapter 18 is word for word exactly the same as Chapter 17, only it is run backwards." Ted joined the campus humor magazine, Jack-O-Lantern, where he became editor-in-chief, until removed as punishment for the drinking incident. (Prohibition was in force, not only making Ted's spree...