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...most people, railroads mean passenger trains; they, after all, carry people. But most of the stock rattling and rumbling along U.S. tracks these days is hauling freight and is doing so, as TIME contributing editor Hugh Sidey reports in this issue, with surprising vigor. "A couple of years ago," says Sidey, "I began noticing brief newspaper items about various freight routes and companies. And they didn't mention government subsidies. Freight was making money...
Sensing an untold story, Sidey hit the rails to interview people at all levels of the freight industry. He rode a Conrail train up the west side of the Hudson River Valley, getting an engineer's-eye view of spectacular scenery; half a continent away, he observed the switchings, couplings and uncouplings at a vast freight yard in North Platte, Nebraska. These experiences called up memories of his Iowa childhood and his long romance with railroads: "I remember as a four-year-old hearing the train whistle on a winter morning and pressing my nose against an icy windowpane...
...assignment also brought some unexpected drama when, near the end of Sidey's reporting tour, floods overwhelmed the upper Mississippi valley. Flying over the inundated areas, Sidey looked down on the Midwest of his youth utterly changed. Taking a break from freight, he gave us vivid reporting from the centers of devastation...
BUREAUS: Suzanne Davis (Director of Administration) Chief Political Correspondent: Michael Kramer Washington Contributing Editors: Stanley W. Cloud, Hugh Sidey Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, Barry Hillenbrand, J. Madeleine Nash, Frederick Ungeheuer, Bruce van Voorst, Jack E. White...
BUREAUS: Suzanne Davis (Director of Administration) Chief Political Correspondent: Michael Kramer Washington Contributing Editors: Stanley W. Cloud, Hugh Sidey Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, Barry Hillenbrand, J. Madeleine Nash, Frederick Ungeheuer, Bruce van Voorst, Jack E. White...