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...Railroads," says Louis W. Menk, "are a growth industry." As chairman of Burlington Northern Inc., the nation's biggest railroad, he might be guilty of some slight bias, but his opinion is widely shared in financial circles. The oil shortage has made coal critically important as an alternative energy source, and most coal moves by rail. Shippers of other goods are beginning to realize that freight trains consume only about one-fourth as much energy per ton-mile as trucks do. And the Nixon Administration's newly proposed Transportation Improvement Act would protect railroads from discriminatory local taxation...
...railroad better illustrates both the potential and the problems of cashing in on it than Menk's Burlington Northern. It was formed four years ago by the merger of two Minnesota-based railroads, the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern, and two smaller lines they controlled jointly. The company's distinctive green cars now run over more than 25,000 miles of track from Chicago to Vancouver, British Columbia...
...then tried to pay for it with a credit card, the pump attendant spat in his face. A driver in Bethel, Conn., and another in Neptune, N.J., last week escaped serious injury when their cars were demolished by passenger trains as they sat stubbornly in lines that stretched across railroad tracks. "These people are like animals foraging for food," says Don Jacobson, who runs an Amoco station in Miami. "If you can't sell them gas, they'll threaten to beat you up, wreck your station, run over you with a car." Laments Bob Graves, a Lexington, Mass...
...union locals were laying away food and provisions for their members, N.U.M. leaders mapped plans to picket power stations, docks and railyards in an effort to halt other union-run industries. Movement of pickets will be coordinated from a strike center in London. Huge sheets will be draped across railroad bridges near power stations, informing train engineers: "This is the picket line. Please do not cross...
Since the beginning, every drop of Coors has been brewed in the same plant, which is now the world's largest brewing establishment. An average can travels 960 miles in refrigerated trucks and railroad cars before it is consumed. The Coors brewing process takes 80 days, as much as four times as long as some other big brewers take, but distribution is so efficient that a typical mouthful is out of the brewery and down the hatch in a month, as opposed to an industry average of three months...