Along its 10,000 miles of mainline track raced Pennsylvania locomotives pulling empty cars to flake the rust off the rails. Safety crews hustled to inspect thousands of switches. After a twelve-day shutdown, the Pennsylvania Railroadthe nation's biggest freight and passenger linelast week started to roll again.
As expected, Mike Quill, boss of the A.F.L.C.I.O. Transport Workers Union, claimed a notable victory, saying: "The Pennsylvania Railroad has been dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th century." But the Pennsylvania's Chairman James M. Symes was closer to the truth: "Quill finally made an agreement he could have had without a strike." All...
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