Word: rails
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...north, engineers are digging away at the Channel Tunnel, at a cost of $13.5 billion, the largest privately financed civil-engineering work of modern times. In the south, crews are extending Europe's most advanced high-speed rail system toward Spain and Italy. Everywhere workers are lacing the country with fiber-optic cable and new power lines. France is also the driving force behind Europe's innovative strides in civil aviation and space technology. Paris is headquarters for Arianespace, the world's leading launcher of commercial satellites. Airbus Industrie -- a four-nation consortium headquartered in Toulouse...
...faster than a speeding bullet, but for Lone Star staters in a hurry the so-called bullet train authorized last week by the Texas high-speed rail authority may be the next best thing: a 200-m.p.h. high-tech wonder that . should eventually link Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin in a 620-mile commuter triangle -- America's first ultrafast rail line...
...train that could traverse the unending stretches of the Old West at a pace compatible with 21st century business. The winner of the 50-year franchise for the $5.5 billion project: Texas TGV, an alliance of 19 engineering firms and financiers from North America and France, where high-speed rail travel is a commonplace. The consortium promises a 1 1/2-hour Dallas-to-Houston run by 1998 (the trip now takes four hours by car). Opposing the move is Dallas-based Southwest Airlines, which foresees government bailouts, high ticket prices and eventual failure for the futuristic choo-choo...
...Disneyesque tinge. The city's pitch for a National League baseball team included a promise to build not just a concrete mega-ballpark but an old-time, intimate "field." Orlando hopes to embrace mass transit, but an old- fashioned trolley line is getting priority over a modern elevated rail system. Orlando basketball games are not games but "theatrical productions," in the words of Magic manager Pat Williams. He spent more than a year searching for the fabric and color of the team's uniform. "Disney sets the tone for everything in Orlando," he says...
...protesters even chained themselves to it. Two weeks ago, South Carolina fined CSX $21,975 because the train was leaking what appeared to be a toxic liquid. Meanwhile the controversy has scared off four landfill operators so far. Last week the train rolled out of Sumter, S.C., like a rail-bound Flying Dutchman, toward an undisclosed destination...