Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rail-fan movement began right here in Boston during the depression when people deeply reconsidered established values. Automobiles had become a bore because as modern contraptions they were devoid of all nostalgia. Railroad Enthusiasts, Inc., the group which sponsored Sunday's trip, organized in 1933, and quickly established chapters in Hartford, New York, Portland, and Taunton, Mass. Pretty soon there were a million members all over the country--buying magazines (Sample want ad: "Pictures needed of cabooses seen from the side."), swapping photographs (Advertised Mr. G. A. Porter of Savannah, Ga.: "8 X 10 neg. of A-AWP supplement...
...guidance of Howard Greene, Trip Chairman, the Boston chapter now meets once a month, and up to 125 members attend discussions of railroad topics. "Some of us just never grow up," Greene believes. "We may mature in some ways, but there's always something of a kid in a rail fan." Greene has carried his kidstuff to the point that he now possesses one of the country's largest libraries of railroadiania--about 3,500 volumes, "though I can't match Harvard's collection," he admits...
...romance of transportation," Greene says, "that's made us all enthusiastic about railroads. Rapid and cheap transportation built this country, and the rail fans are people who understand the romantic implications of America's growth...
...railroad vice-presidents feel about rail fans...
...Wish." From the first ambush, the Israeli army and police played a grisly game of hide-and-seek with the infiltrators. Clues were stiffening bodies, blown-up irrigation pipes, wrecked rail lines, burnt-out cars and trucks-a trail of death running between the fields of ripening corn, blossom-scented orange groves, drying creek beds and shifting dunes, to the shallow trench that divides Israel from the refugee-jammed Gaza strip. The Israelis killed eleven, captured four. One patrol stalked a returning assassin team for 18 hours, killed all five "self-sacrificers" as they hid in a clump of trees...