Word: supertrains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Union Pacific's net income was down from $26,193,000 to $19,595,000, and Norfolk & Western, normally one of the most profitable, had a 23% earnings decline. The N. & W. managed, however, to set another sort of record. Pulled and pushed by eight diesel engines, a supertrain of 450 coal cars moved over 47 miles of N. & W. track to set a freight-train record for U.S. railroads. Any motorist caught at a grade crossing had to wait ten minutes for the supertrain to pass...
Pushers & Smoke. The Tokaido, studded with quaint inns and hubristic history, can now be traversed in three hours flat by means of the Hikari, a sleek supertrain whose name, if not quite its speed (125 m.p.h.), means "light" in Japanese. The city dweller of the Tokaido is confronted with problems endemic to urban life everywhere. His highways thunder to the rush of 15 million speeding trucks, cars and motorcycles. Commuter trains on Japan's excellent railway system must hire "pushers" to jam the passengers into the steamy cars. A lack of sewerage results in the use of "vacuum trucks...
...cities takes a train-a statistic that explains why U.S. railroads have lost money on their passenger business every year since 1945. Nonetheless, many railroaders are now more optimistic about passenger trains than they have been for years. They feel that proposed new, fast trains, including a 150-m.p.h. supertrain between New York and Washington on which test runs begin next year, will eventually lure many intercity travelers from cars (now used by 90%) and planes (5%). Meantime, many lines are concentrating on special trains, spruced-up equipment, new services and engaging advertising to perk up their passenger business. There...