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Telephoning in transit is by no means new but is still undeveloped. Some freights have telephone service between engine and caboose at all times, and certain crack limiteds like the Twentieth Century have telephone service to anywhere when the train is at rest in stations, but nowhere can train travelers...
When, on the same day in 1902, the two railroads launched these rival limiteds, the schedule was a breathtaking 20 hours. Lately, however, airplane and streamline rivalry forced a succession of cuts-first to 18, then to 17¾, finally, last April, to 17 hours flat. The two trains can...
In 1908 the speed of New York Central's 20th Century Limited on the New York-Chicago run (960 mi.) was stepped up to an 18-hr. schedule to match that of Pennsylvania's Pennsylvania Special (later the Broadway Limited). A series of wrecks followed, causing public outcry...
Other contemplated changes in the New York-Chicago schedules of the two lines: 1) an increase in the running time of other 20-hr, limiteds to 21 hr.; 2) an acceleration of slower trains to a 21-hr. run; 3) elimination of all extra fares except on the 18-hr...
Jimmy Wilson (Cards) has a good job in a silk mill in Philadelphia. Bob Shawkey (manager, Yanks) and Herb Pennock (Yanks) would rather go after moose than anything else. Goose Goslin (Senators) farms 500 acres in New Jersey. In North Carolina Jakie May (Reds) hunts possums and coons with 20...