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...warmup truck and began blasting hot air straight into the cabin. It was rough, but it worked-a bit like Siberia itself." Our story was written by Contributing Editor Marguerite Johnson, who in 1970 saw the region from a somewhat different perspective: a coach window on a Trans-Siberian railroad train during a week-long trip across Siberia...
...promise of Siberia is still largely promise, however. The vast land is far from tamed. Although sleek new Yak 40 minijets now dart from city to city and the Trans-Siberian Railroad provides a 6,000-mile spinal column from Moscow to the Pacific, riverboats and horse-drawn sleds still provide the lifelines from one wooden village to the next. In many places bears are more plentiful than people, and hunters frequently have to eject them from the food-stocked little huts that are established as survival stations...
...southern edge of a vast field stretching 1,000 miles down the Ob River. Its oil production, which has doubled every year since 1965, is expected to hit 130 million tons by 1975, comparable to half of Saudi Arabia's output. A spur from the Trans-Siberian Railroad has been completed between the provincial capital of Tyumen and Tobolsk-both sleepy towns become boom cities-and is being extended 300 miles northward to Surgut...
...most of its first two years, Amtrak, the quasi-public corporation created to preserve U.S. railroad passenger service, seemed to be highballing down the final stretch of track toward extinction. Amtrak began operations on May 1, 1971, by discontinuing almost half the nation's rail passenger service; as it rolled through the next 20 months, it lost $239 million. Last year its long distance trains ran late 47% of the time, and drew angry complaints from riders about dirty cars, erratic heating systems and rest-room toilets that did not flush...
...airline-style package weekend tours that include train and hotel reservations in a single, discount price, and has negotiated car-rental discounts for Amtrak passengers at some destination points. Although these are not exactly startling innovations, the attitude behind them is the exact opposite of the viewpoint of private railroad executives, most of whom believe that passengers only get in the way of freight...