Word: railroads
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...hour away in Manhattan. Bus service also meant that the town's two florist shops could count on daily deliveries of fresh flowers. And repair shops could often get same-day emergency shipments of spare parts. Although the town's cooperative grain elevator still has access to a working railroad spur, weeds surround the tracks. Reason: the Kyle railroad has added a $750- per-car surcharge to the standard rate, forcing the cooperative to haul its grain 17 miles by truck to a main railroad line...
...justices, voting 7-2, upheld federal regulations forcing railroad workers involved in accidents to undergo blood and urine tests. By a separate 5-4 vote, the court ruled that the U.S. Customs Service can order urine tests for employees seeking drug-enforcement jobs or positions that require they carry firearms...
...during the three summer months. To have a checkbook while traveling is one thing. It is quite another to own only a student card identifying me as a student of the Urals Polytechnical Institute. This taught me a lot, for instance, when I traveled on the roof of a railroad car without a ticket, when I spent the night in sheds with poor and homeless people. That is how I traveled, although it seems impossible to imagine...
...potential for chaos posed by the machinist strike was nothing compared with that of secondary strikes by railroad and mass-transit workers...
...workers on Amtrak, the New York subways, the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) and other commuter lines had struck, it could have meant, with apologies to R.E.M., the end of world as we know...