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Minutes later, the four-man Swiss sled, a red-nosed quarter-ton of steel, wire and canvas, started its practice run. Brakeman Fritz Stöckli gave a final shove, then hopped on behind his white-sweatered crew: Driver Endrich, Crewmen Aby Gartmann and René Heiland. Runners rattling on the icy course, the sled hit a 50 m.p.h. clip as Endrich steered through the tricky "labyrinth"-a series of 16 intricate curves. Pounding into the Bavarian Curve, a 180° turn with a 15-foot sheer wall of ice where Sweden's Rudolph Odenrich was killed two years...
Lesser Evil. In Youngstown, Ohio, Nurse Gwendolyn Owens, 24, ignored the railroad brakeman's red lantern, drove on until she crashed into a train, later explained: "I didn't want to stop in that neighborhood after dark...
...Night Express was lying just beyond a blind curve, and its brakeman had hurried a thousand feet back along the tracks with a red flag in his hand. When he saw the Red Arrow rumbling toward him, he stood between the rails in the bright morning sunshine and waved desperately. He had to jump for his life. As the Red Arrow rounded the curve, its horn blasted. Then, with a roar and a blinding electric flash, its locomotive sliced through the rear Pullman of the express, derailed the car ahead, reared like a wounded beast, and toppled sideways...
...whistle-stop near Crookston. Minn, one day last week, the brakeman on a Great Northern local turned to the conductor and said: "Well, we got the new boss." "Who?" asked the conductor. "John Budd?" "Yup," said the brakeman, "his father always wanted him to have...
...incline was steep. As the wheels of the two locomotives spun on the slippery rails, smoke poured from the stacks, swirled about the passengers. In the caboose, still sticking out of the tunnel, a brakeman heard strange noises coming from the freight cars ahead, realized something was terribly wrong, ran back down the track to Balvano. When he arrived, Assistant Stationmaster Giuseppe Salonia-told by the next station that 8017 had not arrived-was trying to figure out where the train could be. Rescuers rushed to the tunnel in a locomotive. From inside came the sound of the stalled engines...