Word: switchbacked
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Another attraction of the erstwhile narrow-gauge line is the switchback at Whitingham Dam, reputed to be the only one east of the Rockies, constructed when the dam (largest earth dam in the world) forced rebuilding of much of the roadbed...
...general public to crowd the twelve day-coaches with 468 people, 400 of whom carried cameras. Present were railroad enthusiasts from Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Pennsylvania. Each was given a mimeographed guide sheet with minute details of the route, the histories of towns, the identity of every grade-crossing and switchback along the way. Route was southeast from Chicago, over trackage unused by passenger trains for years, to Logansport, Ind., then northeast to La Otto, southeast again to Fort Wayne. There the one-day railroaders went through the Pennsyl vania's divisional shops. Meanwhile the engine was changed from...
...civil war which enabled General Chiang to set up the Nanking Government with himself as Dictator (TIME, April 25, 1927). This week prompt Japanese rage at Nanking's fresh talk of Russia erupted in grim remarks by Japanese militarists that at the first real sign of a Nanking switchback toward Moscow, soldiers of the Divine Emperor will drive a Japanese wedge of conquest between the Soviet Union and China by seizing border lands...
...recalled, however, having ridden in a switchback at Wembley Fair in 1924 with her brother-in-law, Edward of Wales, who mischievously calls her "Queen Elizabeth."* News of the Duchess' "confession" was bracketed in British papers with this ultrasafe revelation: His Majesty the King-Emperor still reads and rereads Dickens, Thackeray and Trollope, has lately been dipping into Conrad...
West Virginia. For the seat which Republican Senator Guy Despard Goff no longer wants, James Elwood Jones, wealthy Switchback coal operator, was nominated by Republican voters over four rivals. He will be furnished lively opposition in the November election by Democratic Senatorial Nominee Matthew Mansfield Neely, onetime (1923-1929) Senator...