Word: railings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swift, silent ride is simple magnetism. Even before World War I, a farsighted French inventor, Emile Bachelet, demonstrated the feasibility of lifting railroad cars slightly off the track and propelling them forward with strong electromagnetic forces. The beauty of Bachelet's idea was that it virtually eliminated rail friction. But the technology of that day was unable to produce sufficient electricity at a low enough cost...
...carried by rail to Sunny Point, N. C. last week, and loaded aboard the Briggs. Last-minute appeals to courts to stop the Army failed...
Also of concern is the transportation of deadly gas over creaky southern rail lines that, according to the National Transportation Safety Board, account for a disproportionate number of the nation's train wrecks and derailments. More than 400,000 people live along the 661 miles of track the Anniston train will cover, and, reportedly, the thin concrete walls encasing the rockets are fragile if dropped on one of their corners...
After a rain the whole track looks like a big mud flat, but there is a difference. The track cushion, the running surface that the horses' hooves actually hit-below the loose dirt scattered on top, is hard near the rail and soft and mushy for the rest of the track. Any horses not running on the rail slides and slips in the uncertain going and runs poorly...
...Rockingham Park handicap the field by deciding which of the first four horses will grab the early lead and the rail. That will be the winner. The outside horses have little chance. When the track is drying out reverse your thinking. The rainwater has now seeped to the inside. The outside horses run on firm ground and the rail horses on soft...