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...closing??in on NASCAR driving champion Tony Stewart on the backstretch at Talladega Superspeedway. The speedometer, if you had one (stock cars don't--what's the point?), would be reading north of 150 m.p.h., but you're still south of Tony. And you need to pass him for the checkered flag, the Nextel Cup points and the adulation of the 150,000 or so NASCAR nuts who regularly show up every weekend. As you get closer to Stewart's rear bumper, a couple of things start to happen, not all of them good. First, Tony gets ticked...
Railroad men realized that Mr. James's hammer blows brought an end to an epoch that was slow in closing???the Building Period. Next year when trains run over Great Northern-Western Pacific's new 200-mi. link, no other important construction will be underway. Some 249.000 mi. of track serve the LJ. S. well, perhaps too well. Future changes will be in the construction of systems rather than lines ?construction through financial liaisons; links completed with the signing of checks and the endorsement of stock certificates rather than the pounding of spikes...
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