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...special service in Chicago's First Unitarian Church dedicated to U. S. railroaders, President Ralph Budd of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and Albert Nathaniel Williams of Chicago & Western Indiana, worshipped, afterwards inspected a 200-lb. miniature locomotive which had been set on the altar...
...inconvenience in trains is the long lurching walk through three or four Pullmans to the diner only to find all the tables taken and a line of people waiting. Last November the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy installed several telephones in one of the streamlined Zephyrs so passengers might telephone the diner to reserve a table. The Southern Pacific's streamlined City of San Francisco has phones used by porters for service only. Last week Southern Pacific revealed that a new City of San Francisco now abuilding will have telephones in every compartment and in dining and observation cars so that...
...Burlington, La., Harold Lyons reported no decrease in box-office receipts after he advertised on his cinemansion marquee: "Two Features-Neither One Is Any Good...
Danny came to the dusty little Southwestern town of Vrain as a waif. A good-natured mechanic took him in, gave him a job. The local parson worried about Danny's education, but nothing was done about it till Professor W. Winston ("Dubya-Dubya") Burlington came to town on a forensic wave of Armistice Day patriotism, took Danny under his wing...
...local or freight on single-tracked lines, the slower train has to be shunted temporarily onto a siding. In the East, almost universal adoption of double tracks has eliminated this trouble, but in the West many railroads are still largely single-tracked. Last week, one such road, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, announced that it had reversed the old adage. Burlington has cut train time between Chicago and Denver from 30 to 16 hours by introducing streamliners which are on the line so short a time that they only meet or pass about 20 other trains to the standard passenger train...