Word: railroading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before then the German strategy had become apparent even to Warsaw. Sweeping past the capital, an East Prussian Army had struck southeastward to Brest-Litovsk, chief railroad centre between Warsaw and Russia. In the South, three separate drives penetrated deep into the Polish Ukraine. Lwow, the Ukrainian capital, was bombed, strafed, set afire, its water supply cut off, but the invaders did not stop to occupy it. On they plunged, passing to the north and south of Lwow, to the very remotest corner of Poland, where it meets Rumania...
First steam locomotive to run on any U. S. railroad was Delaware & Hudson's British-bought Stourbridge Lion, On Aug. 8, 1829,* the spindly monster, threatening to come apart at every trembling trestle, chugged some two miles along D. & H.'s Honesdale, Pa.-Carbondale line. D. & H. abandoned this line...
Last week citizens of little Honesdale, scene of the historic sendoff, heard sad news. Because passenger revenue has fallen off sharply, Erie Railroad will shortly abandon its Honesdale branch, leaving the town without passenger train service for the first time in nearly 75 years...
Smith, Vassar, and more recently, creative Bennington draw their quota of Yardlings who venture outside the area of the Boston Elevated Railroad system...
Second Grade Rail bonds (mostly in danger of default) found war a boon, for war traffic might hoist many a railroad back to solvency. Typical reactions: during the week, Southern Pacific's 4^3 of 1968 went from 40^ to 48^, the 4^5 of 2013 of the New York Central from" 44! to 55^; the Dow-Jones average from...