Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...southern Algerian garrison town of Colomb-Béchar one morning last week crept a strange train on an expensive errand. Its locomotive, heavily armored, was preceded by six freight cars loaded with sandbags. Its average speed on its way to Ain-Sefra, another garrison town 170 miles to the northeast, was a hesitant 13 m.p.h. Whenever it reached a bridge, invariably a bridge thrown up temporarily by French Army engineers-it slowed down to a walk...
...Colomb-Béchar line runs within a mile and a half of Moroccan territory -the guerrillas slipped into Algeria by night, laying mines, blowing up bridges and ripping up track. By last week they had blown up all of the line's 116 permanent bridges, destroyed 40 freight cars and six electric engines...
Returning to Kingston, Jamaica's capital, from a one-day outing at northwest-coast Montego Bay. 1,500 passengers aboard a Jamaica Government Railway excursion train were variously weary, tipsy, sleepy and raucous. Jammed into twelve ancient wooden coaches and two freight cars, they braced themselves against the sway; some slept in the baggage racks. Then, at the top of a long downhill run in the mountainous central part of the island, the brakes failed...
Ever-present Christ. Artist Stallknecht herself belongs to no church. To house her church pictures, she bought an unused freight depot and moved it onto her property. Inhabited only by its painted population, the building stands open to the public. It is protected by a roughly lettered sign: "Chatham murals. Free. No Children. No canes. No smoking." On the table inside is Stallknecht's own handwritten and framed description of her work: "This is Chatham-portraits of its people-democracy. A cross-section of the United States, with Christ, the spirit of God, predominating. He is the Christ...
...Webb, 83, fireman for Engineer Casey Jones on his fabled (Around the curve and down the dump/ Two locomotives was a bound to jump) last run on the Illinois Central (April 30, 1900), who leaped clear on Casey's orders just before they rammed a stalled freight near Vaughn, Miss.; in Memphis...