Word: train
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus read placards posted in stations of the Toledo, Peoria & Western R. R. 50 years ago last week. Some 750 people from Peoria and nearby towns made reservations. A train dispatcher took along his bride. A superintendent of the T. P. & W. attached his private car, invited a party of friends. Sixteen coaches hauled by two locomotives were necessary to accommodate the crowd. Setting gaily forth, the train presently reached tiny Chatsworth. Ill., took on six more passengers, chugged out of the station at 11:35 p. m. Some two miles outside the town it approached a small wooden culvert...
...fireman promptly jumped, escaped with minor bruises. Engineer Southerland. seeing he could not stop in time, signaled frantically to Engineer McClintock in the second locomotive, then pulled his throttle wide open, tore loose from his train and hurtled onto the culvert. The engine carried across the bridge even as it crumpled, safely reached solid tracks beyond. But the second locomotive and the whole train behind piled up in the ditch. Eleven of the wooden cars telescoped or were splintered to matchwood. There was no fire, but when rescuers from Chatsworth reached the spot they found 81 dead, 372 injured -Illinois...
...Santa Fe provides "courier-nurses" on the Scout (Chicago, Kansas City, California), a coach and tourist sleeper, economy train designed to compete with busses. Sociability is subordinated to taking care of the old, the ill, youngsters traveling alone, helping mothers with infants. But in order that the Santa Fe's hostesses shall be interesting conversationalists, at least about the scenery, their training includes trips through scenic parts of the Southwest...
...Chicago, Burlington & Quincy calls its hostesses "Zephyrettes." They wear pearl-grey uniforms, overseas caps, flowers in buttonholes. Before the train starts they greet passengers on the platform, show them to their locations, go through the train with the conductor to see that everyone is comfortable. The Burlington once had 1,500 applications (some from Mexico and Canada) for twelve jobs. A Burlington requirement, in addition to amiability and pleasing appearance, is "self-confidence...
...faced with dismissal when Sailor (Joseph Sawyer) and Kennedy, with the help of Sailor's moll and an old Lincoln touring car, jump the road gang, kidnapping Druggin. What follows is the year's most exciting cops and convicts chase, involving the usual race with a freight train for road crossings, two sensational car crack-ups and one motorcycle spill. Kennedy gets away but goes back to vindicate Jameson's faith in him when he discovers that the yard captain's interest in May is of a lofty order. Best shot: striking convicts screaming...