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...Total U. S. railroad trackage abandoned in 1936 was 1,523 mi., Railway Age reported last week. Abandoned mileage since 1932 totaled...
...cupola was created for two brakemen, one on each side, not to watch for hoboes, but to see that the long line of swaying cars functions properly. Higher cars have lately obstructed the view, forced brakemen to crane far out. Last week, on its ninetieth anniversary the 11,000-mi. Chicago, Milwaukee. St Paul & Pacific R. R. became the first in the U. S. to begin rebuilding all its 700 cabooses. The Milwaukee is cutting away the cupolas, installing baywindows on each side instead, so trainmen can loll on comfortable cushions while looking ahead. Caboose interiors are being renovated with...
...Haven & Hartford R. R. went into court twice last week in the matter of losing railway mileage. In New Haven, Conn., trustees of New England's No. 1 railroad filed a petition in Federal court seeking authority to ask the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to abandon 204.34 mi. of track in New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut because it was unprofitable.* In Providence, R. I., the New Haven was an interested party in the prosecution and conviction of Joseph Gemma, 40, for "stealing a railroad in broad daylight." A Superior court jury found the operator...
...miles of migration, arrived more than a year ago in Chinese regions sufficiently remote to permit many of these Chinese Communists, mostly farmers, to take some welcome respite and more or less settle down in three large blotches with a total area today of perhaps 80,000 sq. mi. Last week this Red State was spectacularly absorbing many soldiers once commanded by Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, recently kidnapper of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Dec. 21 et seq.) and war lord of Manchuria until the Japanese drove him out (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931). Worse still, last week the deserters...
...stroke of twelve one midnight last week the Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light acquired twp big generating stations, 7,600 mi. of line, 185,000 new customers and 800 new city employes. Few days before at a large 7 a. m. breakfast in the Los Angeles City Hall cafeteria, the Power Bureau's general manager, Ezra Frederick Scattergood, had handed President Addison Blanchard Day of Los Angeles Gas & Electric Corp. a check for $46,340,000. Private Powerman Day had handed Public Powerman Scattergood a deed to all his company's electric properties free & clear of debt...