Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Curls of steam and greasy smells rose, one morning last week, around a locomotive which waited in London, ready to whisk a trainload of tourists off to Southampton and the Cunarder Aquitania. Pensive, the engineer spat from his cab upon the platform. "D'ye twig wha's aboord?" he said to the fireman, "Mon, I wud sooner drive Mac any day than the King himsel...
...Cab Driver...
Several days ago, while at my occupation of driving a cab, I was engaged in making change for one of my fares. TIME dropped from my pocket and opened itself on the pavement at the feet of my customer. He looked, brightened and increased my tip from ten cents to one dollar. TIME is irresistible...
...their cowcatchers to the rails last week The engines were painted olive green, the color of B. & O. passenger coaches. Besides using green for the black paint, that has been standard with locomotive users since 1878, the painter striped each machine with gold and red bands. Also, on each cab, in three-inch gilt letters, was the name of a U. S. President, from President Washington to President Arthur.† This was no imitation of custom long obsolete in the U. S. but yet current in Great Britain, of naming locomotives. Nor was the festive painting a symptom of giddiness...
...chanced to be in London, Composer Honegger arranged with indulgent Britons to pilot a locomotive for some 20 miles. He returned from the adventure well nigh ecstatic, plunged at once into a symphonic composition which will take romantic music-lovers out of themselves and into a robust locomotive cab...