Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general public has substantially abandoned its use of trains for other modes of travel." So said Baltimore & Ohio Railroad President Howard E. Simpson last week as the B. & O. petitioned the public service commissions of Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania for permission to drop its Baltimore-New York City passenger service, once esteemed as the "prestige run." Simpson, himself one of the few top railroaders to rise through the passenger department, had good reason to request a cutback. Of the B. & O.'s $34 million passenger deficit last year, $5,000,000 came from the six daily Baltimore-New York...
...move, said railroaders, is part of a gentlemen's agreement with the Pennsylvania Railroad, which runs 20 Baltimore-New York round trips daily. In return for B. & O.'s stepping off the tracks, the Pennsy will pare down its own passenger service on the Baltimore-Washington and Cleveland-Detroit routes, where it is a major competitor...
...Rock Island railroad removed the nation's first operative lightweight train, the Talgo-type Jet Rocket, from the 161-mile Chicago-Peoria run, put it to carrying commuters on the short haul between Joliet and Chicago...
...Railroad riders generally have not liked the trains. Rock Island found that many passengers got dizzy watching the three-sectioned Jet coaches wriggle around curves. Others complained of the excessive vibration of the low-slung design...
Light-Fingered. In Seoul, Korea, three officials of the Railroad Bureau were sacked for "unbecoming conduct" after their arrest on charges of stealing ten tons of rails...