Word: brakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early next morning, five miles from Newcomerstown, Ohio, trouble developed in the air brake system. In a murky fog, the troop train ground to a stop. Out of the early morning roared the Pennsylvania's crack twin diesel Spirit of St. Louis. The first unit of the diesel hurled the rear coach of the troop train in the air, sheared the second car to floor level, hurtled into a creek. The second unit derailed a third car. Two cars of the Spirit of St. Louis plunged from the track...
...Catalogue Virgins." Delegates attacked the problem from both sides. Some threw bricks at free-wheeling artists and some at brake-stomping clerics. They passed resolutions urging the formation of Catholic artists' unions, and more thorough religious training for Catholic art students. They even recommended that "competent authorities update-the artistic culture and taste of the clergy...
...Capitan began sliding ahead of the Chief, crewmen on its big diesel heard "something dragging" underneath the mail coach-a brake rigging had broken and dropped to the ties. An instant later, the mail coach lurched off the rails, derailing the Capitan's passenger coaches behind it. Car 2918, El Capitan's middle coach, hurtled off the tracks and sideswiped the Chiefs locomotive, knocking it off the rails into the light brush along the right of way; the Chief's passenger cars jolted, but stayed on the track...
...passenger had tasted blood. For the next four blocks old indignities fanned a running, profane tirade. Other passengers listened with moody satisfaction. Finally Coyne could stand no more. He wrenched the wheel, tromped on the brake and slowed to the curb. Leaping to his feet, he turned on his passengers: "Everybody off the bus. I don't have to take this. I'm going back to the garage...
Last week to the grave in Jackson, Tenn. of John Luther Jones, folk hero of U.S. railroading, went fans from far & wide. The occasion: the 50th anniversary of the murky night when "Casey" Jones* died with his hand on the brake of the Illinois Central's crack Cannonball Express as it plowed into a freight train at Vaughan, Miss...