Word: flatcar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Colorado River. Since the bull had promised 30 days in jail and a $2,000 fine if further annoyed, everyone hid, returning well after midnight to catch the train. They succeeded, but with difficulty. Comfortable boxcars are giving way to sealed containerized loads. The riders settled for a chilly flatcar under a heaving truck, leaving Colton amid a terrifying anvil chorus of wheels, cars and couplings stressing and whining. But a neophyte's raw nerves are soon lulled by the classic rhythms of clickety-clack, as he crawls into a warm sleeping bag to enjoy a moonlit panorama of passing...
...being demolished now, sold off by what is left of Hughes' Summa Corp. The Goose, moved by tugboat last fall to a site a quarter mile away, has a temporary home in a circus tent. A reporter enters the tent prepared to see a dead whale on a flatcar...