Word: rails
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...RAIL SAFETY...
What's changed: The government has spent more than $100 million on improving security on trains, including heightened surveillance of high-risk trains, tracks and rail yards. Amtrak passenger names are checked against government watch lists...
...TURKEY A recently introduced high-speed train running from Istanbul to Ankara derailed near the northwestern town of Pamukova, killing 37 people. Two drivers and a crew chief of the train were charged with negligence, but the media and unions criticized the government for allowing its showcase high-speed rail service to start operating in June, despite warnings from experts that the existing track was not good enough...
...down over North Vietnam in 1967, Mechenbier spent six years in captivity in the so-called Hanoi Hilton, alongside John McCain, now a U.S. Senator. He hung up his wings upon reaching the Air Force's mandatory retirement age: "When you're getting run out of town on a rail, get in front and make it look like a parade," he said at a ceremony in his honor...
...people dead, many more injured and numerous commuter trains mutilated in the biggest terrorist attack Spain had ever experienced. The same trains that I had taken every day to school for four months during the fall semester now lay in a tangled mess strewn across the platforms of suburban rail stations and along the narrow tracks on their approach to the Atocha train station. Dear friends, many of whom shared the daily commute with me, remained an ocean away, out of direct contact. Luckily no one I knew was hurt...