Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train ran until three weeks ago. Then a locomotive chuffed out with a few cars. There was a rock-throwing fracas; a picket was shot at and wounded. A few days later, shotgun pellets ripped through a picket's shanty. Nobody...
...last week, Irwin ("Pants") Paschon, the line's striking head timekeeper, got a telephone call at his Peoria home. An anonymous voice said: "You're going to get what the picket shanty got." Next day Pants Paschon and a score of fellow pickets watched a strange-looking train pull out of the T.P. & W.'s East Peoria yards. Ahead of the locomotive was an armored gondola. Behind the engine were three freight cars and a steel caboose. The train carried six crewmen, 14 guards and some guns...
...Chase. Led by their strike boss G. F. Brown, the pickets ran to their automobiles, sped east on U.S. Route 24, which parallels the T.P. & W.'s tracks, and soon passed the rolling train. At Eureka the strikers parked near the tracks. As the caboose passed, they threw rocks and stones. Shotgun blasts roared from the train. No picket...
...strikers drove on. At Gridley they deployed into three groups along the highway and in a small park beside the tracks. When the train came, one group cut loose with rocks again. The train went on to the edge of the town, started to back onto a siding. Four guards got off and walked ahead of the caboose...
Four nights later an eastbound Denver & Salt Lake freight crawled through a heavy fog in deep Gore Canyon 90 miles west of Denver. It missed a signal, collided head on with a westbound Rio Grande passenger train, killed the fireman. Sadly, railroad officials amended their boast: "Our new system does not penetrate...