Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the engineer wistfully to his passenger: "You oughta been along yesterday. Yesterday I had a steam locomotive." Today was different. Like most of the trains on the Myitkyina, Mogaung & Mandalay Railroad, this was one towed by two jeeps mounted on flanged wheels...
Motive Power. Steam engines are new and rare on the M.M. & M. The line was established solely with jeeps. Coupled for power (with a driver in each jeep), they run a daily shuttle over the 30-odd-mile road, towing six-car trains loaded with combat troops, casualties, evacuees, mules, equipment, food, high ranking officers...
Recently the onetime civilian railroaders who run the M.M. & M. set up a repair shop for twelve barely salvageable steam engines left behind by the Japs. After plugging 677 holes in the water tank of No. 1, they had it going in eight days. No. 6, hopefully named The Rangoon Limited, went to work last week. But in the absence of coal, the wood-burning engines are limited to short runs. The M.M. & M., which now extends southward beyond Mo-gaung, will have to depend on the jeep to pull it through eventually to Mandalay...
Manus is still growing. Steam shovels and bulldozers are clearing the way for new docks. But, like the other improvised bases in the Pacific, Manus may never be quite finished. Said an admiral: "Our ambition is to leave unfinished bases all the way across the Pacific to Japan." A signpost on Manus reads: "Tokyo, 2,000 miles; Manila, 1,670 miles...
...blanket of ash, like black snow. It blackens people's faces so they look like coal miners, crushes roofs, kills trees, in some places is piled to rooftop height. Near the base of the crater, where the scientists, keeping an eye out for falling bombs, have been working, steam and gas pours from deep holes (fumeroles) with red-hot sides. Said Dr. McGrew: "This seemed like a glance into Hades." Though El Monstruo has spread terror among the Indian natives, birds and animals seem unperturbed, and spiders spin webs in the volcanic...