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Philippines Seeks Japanese vices and equipment necessary to promote Filipino tourist spots MANILA (UPI) A budget of $1 million for Philippine tourism promotion in Japan has been approved by the government The money will be charged against the 16th year schedule of Japanese World War II reparations payments to the Philippines and will cover the cost of Japanese technical ser Page P8 THE SACRAMENTO BEE Sunday March 5 1972 Amtrak Could Bring Back Rail Travel If By Richard Rodda McClatchy Newspapers Servlct If Amtrak keeps the trains gers boarded the train in on time as well as it did for Oakland and Sacrameto on a the weekend Winter Won- three day journey to Denver derland tour and return via the original If it hires more hostesses Overland route eastbound like friendly and gracious and the Zephyr route Nancy Dyal 21 of Jackson- through the Colorado Rock- ville ies on the way home If it continues to The ride was relaxing the steak dinners in the diner scenery spectacular and the 2 LOWEST RATES Roundtrlp Jet from SF or Sac ATLANTA $228 AMSTERDAM $358 131 ks72 £M0 1 ATHENS 484 FRANKFURT 369 LISBON 348 LONDON 348 MADRID 358 OSLO 358 PARIS 358 ROME 421 STOCKHOLM 379 SYDNEY 756 BOSTON 255 CHICAGO 214 MEMPHIS 216 MIAMI 270 MINNEAPOLIS 172 MOBILE 241 NEW ORLEANS 208 NEW YORK 245 PHILADELPHIA 240 TAMPA 252 WASHINGTON 233 meals on the diner good and Seasonal Supplements Special train steams over the original Overland route to Denver IIEKE11VE XOW for Easier Summer xo i rim: i for $550 Then there may be a future after all for the passenger train in America Amtrak (National Railroad Passengers Corporation) has its troubles It inherited a deteriorating intercity passenger service from many railroads last May Trains have been running late and have piled up oper- ntinrr rlofiritc Amtrak is ask- inexpensive And Miss Dyal trained by an airline to become a tram hostess exuded charm She is a graduate of the first class of Amtrak hostesses or passenger service representatives as they are known officially "There were several air line stewardesses in the SPECIAL ONE WEEK EASTER TRIPS HAWAII MEXICO CARIBBEAN Rockies and along the winding Colorado River to "Salt Lake City This is the route of the old California Zephyr in its day the most talked-about train in America The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad which did not join Amtrak is required to keep the Denver to Salt Lake train operating until 1975 The service 22-23 a Yellowstone Park Adventure tour scheduled for May 25-30 and an Alaska-Yukon tour featuring the White Pass Yukon Railroad August 4 to 20 Fred Stindt chapter president personally escorts many of the tours Stindt explained the society puts the tour profits into restoring ancient railroad equipment The society has acquired many including the old CP Huntington and Gov Stanford locomotives which are stored in a Safeway Company warehouse in Sacramento pending the construction of a railroad museum in Old Sacramento Plans for the museum will be unveiled at a ceremony here Wednesday' ter to hold a "steady run Lawrence Maxon 63-year-old lounge car attendant had been with Southern Pacific for 29 years and now works only on call The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society is doing its best to promote rail travel and has a weekend trip to San Simeon partially by rail coming up April rTArvrY HI ine Congress to come to its class" she explained They rescue with $170 million couldn't believe it when they But there are a few bright found out we don have to spots in the picture The ex- serve meals" cursion trains are well pa- Miss Dyal said so far her tronized and are profitable duties have been minor like The Reno and Las Vegas adjusting the heat explain- remains up to its old standard dome cars a diner and clean eauinment But weekend fun trains are ing the scenery or visiting business is not flourishing "I applied for the job be booked solidly The Winter Wonderland tour sponsored by the Pacific Coast chapter of the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society was another suc cause I like to meet people" she said "I just couldn't see myself in an office behind a typewriter" She works out of Los Angeles and is assigned to the cess story Last weekend 139 passen- Super Chief LA to Chicago except on days a tour is routed through the territory "Sometimes on cold winter days we have only 10 passengers" lamented the conductor The Rio Grande railroad seems to be counting the days it must continue to run the train Why it was impossible to take the tain with its 139 extra sightseers on to Ogden Utah for their connection with the westbound City of San Francisco is hard to explain But at Salt Lake City the passengers were required to Tour Plans or the Sunset LA to New Orleans on regular runs Amtrak sent her north for the Winter Wonderland tour which had six special sleeping cars and a dome lounge information about excursions of the For future Railway and Locomotive car assigned to the City of Historical Society write San Francisco the regular James Weinberger tour director 3542 Jefferson Ave Redwood City 94062 change to buses lor tne last 30 miles to Ogden Amtrak is training its personnel mostly veteran members of the railroad crews in the hope of improving the image of the passenger trains Because of the rapid decline in the number of trains it takes 30 years of seniority for a waiter or por Amtrak train which operates three times a week from San Francisco to Chicago The special cars went as far as Cheyenne Wyo where they were switched to one of the last of the Union Pacific's giant steam locomotives For the benefit of rail buffs the mighty UP 8444 as they affectionally know it pulled the cars over a branch line from Cheyenne to Denver There were stops along the way for picture taking At 6 pm Sunday right on time No 8444 pulled into' the huge virtually deserted Denver passenger station once a busy terminal The next morning the tour passengers boarded the Rio Grande Zephyr for a trip through the snow covered Bound 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