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...ultrahigh speeds, can do only 79 m.p.h. on existing tracks, but its pendular suspension means it doesn't have to slow down going around curves--of which this route has many. For much of the way, you skirt the shores of the lovely Willamette, Columbia and Toutle rivers. The view gets even more spectacular as you follow the coastline of the vast and misty Puget Sound. So close to the water do you ride that you often feel you're not on a train at all but on a boat, with blue water and skies...
Known in Argentina as La Trochita (from trocha angosta, or "narrow gauge"), the old carriages run through the foothills of the majestic Andes mountain range. The El Maiten-Esquel run is a 6 1/2-hour ride through breathtaking scenery, with the majestic peaks of the snowcapped Andes in view part of the way. As much fun as the scenery is the train itself. Visitors can stand alongside the engineer as he operates the brakes and the burner on the steep grades along the way. For the less daring there are two shorter rides, El Maiten-Vuelta al Rio and Esquel-Nahuel...
...flush, one to turn on the shower." Sure enough, our deluxe bedroom had a private "bathroom" with a shower right over the toilet and a drain on the floor! Hmmm. Our compartment also included a long sofa-like seat (which converted to a double bed) with a view out the window and a chair across the way. There was also a berth near the ceiling, accessible by ladder, to be pulled down later. However eccentric its facilities, the "room" offered more space and privacy than the "standard" compartment--with its fold-down sink and unenclosed toilet--that we had shared...
...beginning to be worried that her career had run aground. "I'm a dinosaur," she remembers thinking, "because the combatant ships aren't open to women." That changed in 1993, when Congress made warships--with the still notable exception of submarines--accessible to women. With that prospect in view, McGrath stayed with the service and paid her dues, serving two years in the Navy's personnel bureau in Washington and then heading to San Diego to help manage a destroyer squadron, ensuring the vessels were ready...
...months fixing ailing systems and upgrading others. Then they moved on to training exercises, preparing the ship's departments--combat systems, navigation, engineering, operations--to work under battle conditions. In one exercise, McGrath trains her binoculars on an object in the distance. As a nondescript oil tanker comes into view, a dozen sailors cram into a small boat that's lowered over the Jarrett's port side. Armed and nervous, they're preparing to climb aboard the tanker (actually a Navy supply ship) to ensure it is not smuggling Iraqi oil in violation of the U.N. sanctions. It's risky...