Word: catwalks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passengers in two trains were suspended like riders on the Coney Island Wonder Wheel. "The wind would blow," said Mary Cronin Doyle, 18, "and the train would sway, and then some woman would scream." It took police five hours to assist everybody across a precarious, 11-in.-wide catwalk running 35 ft. from the train tracks to the bridge's roadway. All told, 2,000 trapped passengers preferred to wait it out?including 60 who spent 14 hours in a stalled train under the East River...
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (55,000 members). Oldest of the operating unions, organized in Detroit in 1863, it was originally named the Brotherhood of the Footboard-a footboard being the catwalk on the front end of a locomotive. Head of the engineers is Grand Chief Engineer Roy Davidson, 62, a coal miner's son who started out as a fireman on a steam locomotive at 16. Along with engineers, the union's membership includes hostlers, the men who take over the locomotives once they enter railyards and shunt them off for maintenance operations or refueling...
...matter of mood with me," Reese says. "Sometimes I'll work right through the night in my cell." When he works all night, Reese sits Buddha-fashion on his cot and draws by the light that shines-in through the bars from the guards' catwalk. In the language of self-study prisoners soon learn, Reese explains himself: "This is a catharsis for me in a sense. I was a little rough at first, but now I've toned down a little...