Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the St. Louis Robin soared 420 hours and the Bremen plowed a trans-Atlantic furrow in record time, a ponderous, unspectacular freight engine-No. 4113 of the St. Louis & San Francisco ("Frisco") R. R.-chuffed back and forth between Birmingham, Ala., and Kansas City, Mo., establishing a railroad record: for continuous non-refiring operation of a locomotive. On the afternoon of July 19, No. 4113 was fired, coupled to a 55-freight-car train, driven out of the Kansas City yards to break the record of 3,500 miles set by the Great Northern...
Facts of the record which railroad men scrutinized: coal consumption, 975 tons; water consumption, 1,500,000 gal.; gross ton mileage, 13,780,749; cars hauled, 555; average day's run, 320 mi. On its last run into Kansas City, No. 4113, pulling perishable freight, clipped 3½ hours off its running schedule. Built by Baldwin Locomotive Co. in 1923, No. 4113 was a 2-8-4 type (two pilot wheels, eight drivers, four trailers) equipped with a Baker valve gear, a Chicago K45 lubricator, a radial stay type firebox. With a total heating and superheating surface...
...Vladikavkas we wangled tickets on the railroad to Moscow. There were 13 of us in the car including a Russian general. We thought he was a porter and tipped him for getting us tea. My dear, how could we tell? All he had on was a pair of pants and an openwork undershirt...
There were many optimists, however, and not a few successes; Ransonx E. Olds, who alone has had two automobiles named after him (Reo?his initials?and Oldsmobile); Walter P. Chrysler, railroad shop superintendent who borrowed $4,300, bought an automobile and spent a winter taking it apart and putting it together again to see what made it go; John Willys, high pressure salesman, who cashed a personal check for $330 at a hotel to meet the pay roll of the Overland Co. so he would not lose his sales agency, and who almost at once became simultaneously president, treasurer, general...
...scandal-mongering originated from the stories of cynical divorce lawyers who have taken out of Reno tall tales of the university students "working their way through college by performing as rich women's gigolos." The only ascertainable basis for such scandal is the appearance at Reno's railroad station, from time to time, of clean-cut young college men come to say goodbye to ladies from far parts whom they knew in Reno while they (the ladies) were being accommodated on domestic matters by a State more sympathetic than most...