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...still available. To avoid the treacherous air currents and busy traffic of the East River, or the lower Hudson, the planes would fly between Newport and New Haven, connecting with fast New York trains. Instead of a painful and lengthy journey from Newport to Wickford, Wickford to Wickford Junction by train, Wickford Junction to New Haven by boat, passengers would have a more-or-less pleasant 50 minutes in the air. The Aeromarine Airways, now working successfully in Florida, would be the operators of the line...
...probable route of such traffic, in the event of the realization of the project, would be down Cambridge street, over the Charles River dam, up a ramp to the end of the bridge from the North Station to the junction of Porter and Orleans streets in East Boston, and thence over the usual road...
...train service between New York and Princeton will be discontinued on Saturday, November 10, the date of the Harvard-Princeton football game and no trains will be run on schedule. According to a recent announcement made by the Pennsylvania Railroad system, "Stops of New York Division trains at Princeton Junction on November 10, between 10 A.M. and 6 P.M. will be annulled. Regular train service on the Princeton Branch will be correspondingly annulled...
...replace the regular schedule of train connections between New York and Princeton by way of Princeton Junction, the railroad plans to maintain constant service between New York and Princeton, direct. According to the Boston Passenger agent of the Pennsylvania system, trains will be constantly waiting at the Pennsylvania station in the morning after 8.45 A.M. and each train will be dispatched directly to Princeton as soon as it is filled. Returning, the trains will leave Princeton as they are filled. The first express trains for New York after the game will be drawn up in the middle train yard, which...
...fallible human equation of the locomotive engineer which has caused so many fatal train wrecks will be completely eliminated by a system of automatic train control tried out with " extremely encouraging results " on a 50-mile stretch of track of the Pennsylvania Railroad between Lewistown Junction and Sunbury, Pa. It is a combination of electrical, pneumatic and mechanical devices applied to both track and locomotive. The track is electrified with alternating current. The locomotive picks up the current by induction. This power operates three cab signals to the engineer, but at the same time turns on the air-brakes...