Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special train snaked down the eastern slopes of the green Sierra, its engine backing slowly around the hairpin curves and through the snowsheds. It stopped briefly at Truckee, rolled on across the Nevada line to Reno, on to the Southern Pacific division point at Sparks. As darkness fell, the train picked up speed, racing along the alkali sinks of the bare Nevada countryside...
...private car (the Aleutian), California's Governor Earl Warren, a man noted for his hearty friendliness, chatted with newsmen, read some pages of Winston Churchill's The Gathering Storm, leisurely drank three bourbon highballs before dinner. By midnight, as the train headed toward Utah, he was asleep...
Stories & Lemon Drops. From the moment that the Warren train pulled out of Sacramento, the atmosphere aboard resembled a good-will tour. The whole first day, in his invariable double-breasted suit, Candidate Warren had roamed informally through the cars, swapping stories, munching lemon drops to keep his voice in trim, inviting newsmen back to inspect his own quarters. He arranged to have lunch with a few newsmen every day "so you can get to know me better...
...campaign train rolled through the Royal Gorge of the Rockies, south through Colorado and into New Mexico, it was clear that Earl Warren was more determined than ever to stay above the infighting. Not until he reached Tulsa this week did he give the sins of the Democrats more than a passing swipe...
...People v. the Interests. The train hurtled across Pennsylvania, pausing at Pittsburgh. At Crestline, Ohio, the President told 1,500 railway workers and families that he was "saddened and shocked" by the death of Count Bernadotte. The train slid into the Englewood yards where a herd of Chicago politicians climbed aboard. It was 3 a.m. Cook County Commissioner Arthur X. Elrod boomed disappointedly: "The big wheel's asleep." But Mr. Truman got out of bed for a chat with Cook County Boss Jake Arvey. Then the train rolled on into Iowa...