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...warehouse, a one-story, 100-by-25-foot wooden structure on O'Brien Highway Rear, belonged to the state-run railroad and was eventually going to be torn down, fire officials said. The building was about "three-quarters" destroyed, according to Michael E. Kuhn, deputy chief of the Cambridge Fire Department...
...silk against silk as Drew sashays toward Billy on the night they might make love. From such subtle signals emerges a lopsided triangle: the strong man and two people independent enough to survive him. Billy had first caught Dutch's attention when he juggled four balls on a railroad overpass. But he and Drew are both jugglers, really, of other people's emotions -- even those of Dutch, whose primal whims toward these two outsiders are to adopt one and have the other killed...
Make-work union rules are also common in other industries. Morgan Reynolds, a labor economist at Texas A&M, notes that in the railroad business, one of the country's most heavily unionized industries, firemen are often mandatory on diesel locomotives, which do not require them. On non-union railroads, two crewmembers suffice to do the job for which union railroad must employ five. Often, union rules require that railroad workers receive a full day's pay for a few hours work...
...Hope, Raisa describes her early years as one of three children of a railroad engineer in Siberia. Money was so tight that she did not own a real overcoat until she went to college. "Everybody remembers the coat," she says. "It really was a milestone in the family history...
...death of the river may help change all that. The National Transportation Safety Board has long argued for stronger, safer cars for carrying so-called environmentally sensitive chemicals, and the idea has gained support on Capitol Hill, where the Federal Railroad Safety Act is up for revision. Scientists say it may be 10 years before the Sacramento River has fully recovered. Perhaps by then tanker cars will be safe enough to guarantee that a disaster like last week's can not happen again...