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...days later, as a 140-car freight train rumbled by tiny Youngstown in Florida's panhandle, all five locomotives hurtled off the track, piling up 47 cars like jackstraws. From one ruptured tanker poured a cloud of deadly, yellowish-green chlorine gas. Engineer Ray Shores grabbed his portable short-wave radio and sprinted 75 yds. to a swamp, where he burrowed deep into the mud and called for help...
Federal investigators blamed the Youngstown wreck on sabotage-someone had unbolted two sections of rail. But the other three derailments apparently were caused by mechanical failures: broken wheels in Waverly and Bowling Green, and a broken brake assembly in Cades. Indeed, the tracks and much of the equipment belonging to U.S. railroads have been deteriorating for years, and experts agree that the situation is steadily worsening. Last year there were about 8,000 derailments-3,000 more than the total ten years ago-including 150 or so in which tank cars leaked dangerous chemicals...
...Youngstown, Ohio...
...causing neither to any great extent. True, new-car sales were down during the Jan. 1-10 period, v. the same period a year ago-the sixth consecutive decline. But neither Detroit's automen nor Wall Street analysts seem particularly worried. As Dick Barrett, a Cadillac dealer in Youngstown, Ohio says, "I don't see a big increase, but 1977 was a very good year, and without any increase we'll still have a good year...
Meanwhile, the domestic picture remains glum. Last week Chairman Edgar B. Speer of U.S. Steel said that his com pany would eventually have to close down its Youngstown, Ohio, operation, which currently employs 5,000 workers. It is clear that the Youngstown plants, with their ancient machinery, have also become geographically obsolete. Even if the Administration's trigger-price scheme succeeds, older plants like Youngstown's are unlikely to be salvageable...