Word: capitan
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...Santa Fe's stainless steel El Capitan, an all-coach express of 16 cars, glittered eastward at 90 m.p.h. on the last leg of the run from Los Angeles. It was 5:40 a.m., and Chicago was only 148 miles away. On an adjoining track, also Chicago-bound, the slower Kansas City Chief clicked along at a modest 65. In both trains, as they raced side by side near Monica, Ill., dawn and restlessness had prodded light sleepers into wakefulness. Washrooms were crowded with women prettying their faces and men shaving...
...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...
...number three match, Capitan Jim McKittrick, who dropped his first collegiate decision in over a year against Army Saturday, is favoured to win handily...
...from Amesbury, Massachusetts, received the Kelleher Memorial Scholarship, awarded for the first time in the memory of a Marine Corns capitan who was killed in action on Tinian. The Kelleher fund is included in the National Scholarship program...
...years, on Sunday and Wednesday afternoons, they had taken visitors to the railroad station and said: "Now just watch." At 3:35 the Chief rolled in, at 3:40 the Super-Chief, and at 3:47 El Capitan slid in off the main line. There were three famous streamliners, all emitting compressed air, Hollywood producers and blondes wearing dark glasses. But after June 2, damn-it-all, the trains would come in separately...