Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cloth-capped, grey-skinned Barnsley coal miners tumbled eagerly out of their special train for the long ride through Bradford's grey streets to '"t Coop" (the football Cup Final). Bradford textile workers watched the football fans, shouted angrily: "Wheer's 't coal? Slacking again?" The miners replied: '"T coal's in Barnsley. Go and help thysen...
...subway train, an empty space...
...late Colonel Edmund W. Starling (of the Kentucky colonels) might have spent a humdrum life in the South, stalking train robbers, pulling bums out of freight cars and convoying precious cargoes for the railway express company which he served as a detective. But his employers suggested cutting his pay to meet competition from parcel post. So young Starling flitted to the U.S. Secret Service...
Citizens of Saskatchewan's prosperous little Simmie (pop. 100) were bored. Ever since Christmas they had been snowbound. Twelve-foot drifts blocked their roads to the outer world. Once a week a train (one coach plus cattle cars and boxcars) chuffed in & out, and then silence lay upon the grain elevators along the C.P.R. tracks, the general store, blacksmith shop, barbershop and garage...
Some town sports got an idea: charter a train for the 32-mile ride to Swift Current. Archie Simmie, station master and café keeper, asked the Moose Jaw C.P.R. office, got word back that for a flat round-trip fare of $2.05, a $200 guarantee, a train would run. By telephone the news was spread; the guarantee became a cinch...