Word: freight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their prized new rolling stock. Union Pacific blocked its main line 30 minutes at Green River, Wyo., while Vandivert photographed three different types of power plants used in mountain hauling. Southern Pacific trainmen, not to be outdone, tape-measured the 4,745-11. length of an 87-car piggyback freight train, laid out the same distance along California's San Luis Obispo horseshoe curve and carefully spotted the train for Vandivert's dramatic storytelling picture of piggyback hauling...
Instead of the old four-track main line, the Central's electronic system needs just two tracks, will be able to shunt swift express trains around rumbling freights by cross-over switches every seven miles, also step up the speed of freight trains from 30 to 60 m.p.h. The dispatchers can also send passenger trains hurtling east and west at 80 m.p.h. on the same track, switch one to the opposite track to pass. Cost of the Central's electronic progress: $6,238,000 for the first step, as much as $50 million by the time it extends...
...always liked to hang around together at night. Sometimes we'd play the pinballs at the Spa, but usually we got kicked out. Then someone would say 'Let's take a walk' and pretty soon we'd end up down near the railroad tracks. Then, we'd hop a freight and clip a case of beer and get high...
...only a set of plans on the drawing board plus a wooden mockup, is a big, versatile, medium-range (up to 3,000 miles) airliner that will cruise at 420 m.p.h. Designed with a two-level, "double-bubble" fuselage, the Vanguard will be able to carry two tons of freight and mail on the lower deck and as many as 122 passengers on the top deck. T.C.A. will take delivery on its Vanguards in the fall and winter of 1960-61, retire or sell all its piston-engine planes, wind up with an airfleet composed entirely of jet-powered Viscounts...
...FREIGHT combination service will be started by Greyhound Corp. To link 6,000 U.S. communities that do not have direct air freight, Greyhound will pick up and deliver packages of less than 100 Ibs. for nearest freight airport...