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...just ship the coal by rail to the Mohave power plant--the same way Peabody already ships coal from Black Mesa to a power plant near Lake Powell? There is no direct rail line to the Mohave plant, and the cost of building one, says Peabody's Palmer, "would be prohibitive...
...felt my earliest memories pop up--like making bouquets with her and my sister from flowers we'd pull off bushes on the way to church to leave on the marble communion rail. When my mother died, her coffin was in that chapel. In 1996 the Redemptorist Fathers were desanctifying and selling the building, and I was able to buy it and preserve it--and I also bought our old house on St. Charles Avenue. Whatever people may say, I do believe you can buy back your past...
...given their track record, it’ll be popular too. Their merger with MultiModal Applied Systems puts them on par with a company with full-time employees. The MBTA’s commuter rail schedule is within weeks of its debut. Seattle transportation will probably soon succomb to the ShuttleGirl charm too. And in a characteristic show of humanitarian aid, they are donating their services to Amtrak, which has experienced huge increases in ridership since Sept. 11. “There are so many times when you feel you can’t do anything,” Karamchandani...
...Russia Rail Link...
Business and political leaders in the U.S., Canada and Russia are mulling a plan to build a railroad tunnel beneath the Bering Strait. A rail link, they say, could carry 30 billion tons of cargo a year and cut shipping time from Los Angeles to Vladivostok as much as two weeks. It's an attainable feat: the strait is only 60 miles wide at its narrowest point (twice as wide as the English Channel Tunnel, which took seven years and $15 billion to construct). But to make the Bering tunnel accessible on the North American side, connecting lines would have...