Word: switchback
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...military convoy moving at night . . . is something that nobody who has been in one can ever forget. . . . The moon was just coming out. The sky was crystal-clear, and the night was bitter cold. . . . We had to cross over a mountain range. There were steep grades and switchback turns, and some of the trucks had to back and fill to make the sharper turns. . . . We had long waits. . . . We would shut off our motors and then the night would be deathly silent except for a subdued undertone of grinding motors far ahead...
...Pennsylvania R. R. recently ran an excursion for railroad enthusiasts from Harrisburg, Pa., which included a trip over this switchback...
...Snowshoe Switchback...
...Letters department of TIME for Nov. 9 Mr. George C. Whitney writes of the switchback in the H. T. & W. Railroad as being reputed to be the only one east of the Rocky Mountains...
There is a switchback on the branch of the Pennsylvania R. R. between Snowshoe and Snowshoe Intersection, Pa. This is standard gauge track, & carries only freight traffic...