Word: tokaido
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Capacity Crowd. It is about time that the U.S. got some high-speed trains. Europe has long had them, and Japan's highly successful Tokaido express travels at 130 m.p.h. In December, Canadian National Railways started TurboTrain service between Montreal and Toronto, reducing the usual 4-hr. 59-min. trip to 3 hr. 50 min. The Canadian TurboTrains are as clean and smooth as jet planes and cost considerably less to ride. So far, passengers have filled them almost to capacity...
Both of the trains had originally been scheduled to go into service almost two years ago. They have been held back by financial and technical problems. Japan, for example, spent $8 billion to build an entirely new roadbed and begin the Tokaido Line express. No entity in the U.S., least of all the railroad industry, has been willing to invest nearly that much. The Turbo-Trains have been further delayed because the New Haven's trustees have been unwilling to introduce costly new equipment until they merge their bankrupt line into a healthy company. The Penn Central was ordered...
...speeds up to 100 m.p.h., saving travelers much of the airlines' baggage-handling hangup and the time-consuming trip to and from out-of-city airports. TEE passengers sometimes find themselves beating jet time - especially on trips of 250 miles or less. Like Ja pan's New Tokaido Line, whose Hikari and Kodama bolt between Osaka and Tokyo at speeds up to 130 m.p.h., Trans Europe trains are built for comfort as well as speed. While he travels from...
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 in which they live along the Tokaido have characters all their own. Yokohama is an industrial jungle that spills multicolored smoke from its mill plants, obscuring the intestinal tangle of pipelines and giant tanks constituting the Mitsubishi petrochemical works. From Nagoya, with its aircraft plants, its brooding feudal castle and gold-scaled carp, one can view gleaming reaches of the sea dotted with high-prowed tankers and freighters-a reminder that Japan is the world's leading shipbuilder. Near Toyota City, home of Japan's biggest automobile manufacturer, graze herds of hand-massaged, beer-fed beef cattle...