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...Grande Zephyr, the last privately operated long-haul passenger service in the Lower 48 states, was about to be shut down. Its operator, the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, said the train was losing $3 million a year. The new operator would be the National Railroad Passenger Corp., the Government-subsidized organization known as Amtrak. The old cars with their rump-sprung seats would be replaced with Amtrak's firm-chaired, bullet ride to modernity. The cuisine of the dining car, a draw for serious trenchermen, would be replaced with Amtrak food, no adjective necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Rockies: Farewell to the Zephyr | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

...smell of bacon lay heavy on the morning air, spreading from a car with the name "Silver Banquet" flung back along its flank. "It is truly the last one," said Steve Patterson, a locomotive engineer with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and a man who rides the Zephyr mostly just to eat. "All the other passenger trains anywhere you go in this country all look alike. I call them generic trains. The little old Zephyr was all we had left. They had the last dining car. I tell you, the rest is airline food. They cook it somewhere else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Rockies: Farewell to the Zephyr | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

...crank up entirely new designs when they are needed. Admits lacocca: "We have to say, 'Do you want vanilla or chocolate?' GM says, 'Do you want vanilla, chocolate or strawberry?' " Later this year, for example, Ford will roll out its replacement for the rear-wheel-drive Ford Fairmont/Mercury Zephyr, known as the Tempo/Topaz. The totally new designs will have front-wheel drive and aerodynamic styling for greater fuel economy, advances that would have been impossible with Ford's old models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iacocca's Tightrope Act | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

...most important new autos on the boards are efficient-looking compacts to replace the Fairmont and Mercury Zephyr. Cars in the new line, code-named Topaz, have a four-cylinder engine, front-wheel drive and a sloping hood. They are designed to compete head-on with the Chrysler K-cars, the Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant, and the General Motors X-body models: the Chevrolet Citation, Pontiac Phoenix, Oldsmobile Omega and Buick Skylark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Are the New Fall Cars? | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...serve as choreographer, pianist-conductor and director. Doing skits as well as songs, the five-member cast is in perpetuum mobile. Carolyn Mignini, as Anna Held, is a seraphic soprano; Mary Catherine Wright, militancy incarnate as Emma Goldman; and Trey Wilson makes a bully "T.R." And in a gentle zephyr of a show, Lynne Thigpen is a bracing typhoon belter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Quartet | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

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