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...million- or 23% of its $3.2 billion revenue-that the Bundesbahn pours each year into modernizing its tracks, trains and service. Its 9,000 electric and diesel locomotives glide in jolt-free quiet over continuously welded tracks. Its 100-m.p.h., all-first-class superexpresses, like the Dortmund-Munich Rheinpfeil (Rhine Arrow), offer such amenities as a four-course dinner for less than $2.50, worldwide telephone service, and multilingual secretaries at $1.50 an hour. There is even a female Silberputzer (silver cleaner) to keep chrome polished and to dust the aisles. On regular expresses, second-class passengers can count on spotlessly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Love Those Rails | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

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