Word: chuffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extra patches of public lawn, a few monuments, and Confederation Square, which has so complicated downtown traffic that Ottawans themselves call it Confusion Square. Ottawa, dominated by the anachronistic Gothic buildings of Parliament, has remained frowzy, a city where trains run through the center of town and chuff smoke into the foyer of the best hotel...
Your article about the reunion of ex-King Michael and Princess Anne [TIME, Feb. 2] is very touching, but let me point out that trains do not "chuff" into Davos-the line is totally electrified...
...Taft train began to chuff, Taft and his campaign strategists breathed nothing but confidence...
Soon after the Crimean War, Britain shipped to Argentina a holdful of war surplus: one locomotive, several coaches, and six miles of track originally ordered for the siege of Sevastopol. Argentines promptly called the locomotive La Portena, proudly watched it chuff out of Buenos Aires in August 1857. In the years that followed, the six miles of track grew to 27,000-over half of it broad Russian gauge (5 ft. 6 in.) like La, Portena's. Because Britain kept her finger in the succulent Argentine railway pie, British investors eventually owned 74% of Argentina's trackage...
Whistle Round the Bend. Makers of toy trains expect to satisfy only one-half of the tremendous demand. Model railroads have lighter (plastic) and longer trains, remote-control electronic systems that switch and disconnect cars, station masters that announce arrivals, electronically operated cranes, locomotives that whistle, chuff, and trail real smoke...