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ZOLLARS First of all, rail service generally has deteriorated, and as demand has picked up for all transportation services, it has forced even more onto the roads. So capacity is getting tight. Fuel costs have gone up, and so have insurance costs. But the law of supply and demand works pretty well. We're able to charge more. Where possible, our customers are passing through those costs. So the consumer ends up paying more...
...during the Civil War with a handful of tracklayers, helped open up the frontier West and has since grown into a $12 billion-a-year colossus with 48,000 employees and 33,000 miles of track crisscrossing 23 Western states. Today UP handles some 30% of the nation's rail freight traffic. But during the past year, the legendary railroad has been groaning under the weight of embarrassing logistical breakdowns...
...enforcement officials tell TIME that information from computer files seized with the group revealed plans for specific attacks in London, including "blowing up high-rise buildings housing multinational companies" by driving bomb-laden cars into underground garages. Other targets included the Heathrow Express, a rail line between the airport and London, and an unspecified synagogue. There were also plans for "hijacking a gasoline tanker and smashing it into a building." The British cell leader, Dhiren Barot--a.k.a. Issa al-Hindi--traveled to New York City in early 2001, according to The 9/11 Commission Report, "to case potential economic and 'Jewish...
...South Station and take the Fitchburg line of the commuter rail out to Concord. From there, head north on Sudbury Road and take a right on Main Street. Stay with Main as it turns into Lexington Road, and follow it to the park. The walk should only take about 20 minutes...
Take the Attleboro/Stoughton Commuter Rail line from South Station or Back Bay, and get off at the Providence stop. The train will stop a couple of blocks west of downtown...