Word: railways
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...summer the weather is a little tamer, and you can hike up to the summit or take a cog railway...
About eight miles north of a scheduled stop in Kankakee, Ill., the 14-car City of New Orleans rolled into its nightmare. Looking toward the railway crossing at the town of Bourbonnais, the engineer saw the warning lights flashing, the barriers down--and a truck carrying 20 tons of steel halfway across the tracks. There was no way to stop. The engine plowed into the truck and then proceeded to derail, twisting like a jagged necklace, whipping the cars around and sending an engine straight into the sleeper...
...mayor of Cambridge. Young John was a brilliant student but didn't immediately aspire to either academic or public life. He wanted to run a railroad. "It is so easy...and fascinating to master the principles of these things," he told a friend, with his usual modesty. But no railway came along, and Keynes ended up taking the civil service exam. His lowest mark was in economics. "I evidently knew more about Economics than my examiners," he later explained...
...print unaltered, including "Odessa," a brand new title Keith wrote expressly for Be Cool. Some choice lines: "I don't care about fame and fortune / Camera in your eye and a dollar in the bank / I want to go runnin' through the fields / Drinkin' hot water from a railway tank...
...print unaltered, including "Odessa," a brand new title Keith wrote expressly for Be Cool. Some choice lines: "I don't care about fame and fortune / Camera in your eye and a dollar in the bank / I want to go runnin' through the fields / Drinkin' hot water from a railway tank...