Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concerning themselves with waterways, is not paradoxical. Speaking before the New York State Chamber of Commerce last week, that sapient layman, President Leonor Fresnel Loree of the Delaware & Hudson R. R., pointed out that the Navy's "natural home" is the ocean. Nor was it paradoxical for a railroader like Mr. Loree to assert that, besides another trans-Appalachian railroad line, more inland waterways are needed by the U. S. for national defense as well as for commerce. He wants to see a coastal-lateral canal system from Boston to Norfolk, Va. A link needed to join up present...
...course, was the St. Nicholas, private railroad home of Friend William F. Kenny. The St. Nicholas rolled up to Albany...
Whoever has traveled on electrified railroads can appreciate last week's decision of the Pennsylvania Railroad to electrify its 11,000 miles of track...
Americana. The U. S. has many peculiarities, some of them absurd. Among the latter, it would appear, are business conventions, talkies, the beds in railroad cars, Chicago schools, the faces of taxi-drivers, women temperance addicts, Will Hays, subways, Roxy's cinemansion, and Gene Tunney. All of these, J. P. McEvoy, who wrote Show Girl, snubs with villainous though somewhat protracted gaiety in this speedy second edition of his famed revue...
...Manhattan-Wilmington miles of track will be the longest railroad electrification unit in the country. The St. Paul. whose partial electrification contributed most to that road's bankruptcy three years ago, has a total 646 miles of track. The Norfolk & Western, which carries coal across the Cumberland Mountains, has 77 miles of electrified track. The coal-carrying Virginian in the same territory has 231 miles...