Word: motorman
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...fixing a sagging overhead electric power line. As the train passed underneath, the power line tangled with the train's trolley. There was a blinding, bluish-white flash as 1,500 volts crackled into the train. Flames licked swiftly over the first two of the five wooden coaches. Motorman Akira Nakamura braked sharply, shut off the power and jumped from the cab, tried frantically to force the doors of the coaches with his hands. Because the power was off, the electrically controlled doors would not budge. Within seconds both coaches were flaming coffins; only ten burned and bleeding passengers...
...Hasty Heart. In Seattle, angered by a trolley motorman who forgot to call out her stop, a woman passenger 1) beat him with her umbrella, 2 ) followed him to a telephone and yanked it off the wall when he tried to summon help, 3) pelted him with canned goods from her shopping bag, 4) smashed the window of another trolley when its motorman refused to let her board...
Neither was scheduled to stop before Jamaica-the point at which twelve of the railroad's branch lines begin fanning out over the island. But when the leading 6:09 was still a mile from the station, an overhead block signal ordered a temporary halt and its motorman obediently applied his brakes. The train ground to a stop. But when the signal changed to "proceed," it refused to start; it groaned, lurched, and stalled dead on the tracks, apparently with its air brakes jammed...
...John is bold and expansive, George cautious and conservative. John is gregarious and full of quips, George shy and sobersided. John stands and talks; George sits and listens. Plain and unpretentious George, in his drab black suit, sedate tie and stiff collar, could easily be taken for a retired motorman dressed up for Sunday...
...Roly-poly Maurice Newlin Trainer, 61, first vice president of American Brake Shoe Co., was elected president to succeed William B. Given Jr., 62, who moves to the chairmanship. Trainer, a University of Pennsylvania graduate (electrical engineering) and onetime, streetcar motorman, joined Brake Shoe in 1916 as an inspector...