Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passengers are permitted on the northbound newspaper train leaving London's grimy King's Cross station each morning at 2:34 a.m. But 15 minutes before the train was scheduled to leave one morning a man climbed aboard it and settled himself in a car reserved for railroad employees. "No passengers," said a ticket collector. The traveler refused to budge. The ticket collector fetched a guard. The traveler refused to budge. The guard fetched an assistant stationmaster...
...luggage rack to which he clung. At last, the carriage was uncoupled and shunted into a tunnel. There, in complete darkness, the adamantine passenger sulked and fumed. Not until the railway officials threatened to shunt his car onto a siding permanently did he finally consent to leave the train and wait for the regular 4:25 to Grantham...
Then, once more aboard his private train, Dimitrov told correspondents of still greater events to come. Treaties of alliance between all the Eastern European states, he said, would be followed by customs unions, and after that-"when the time is ripe our peoples will decide whether it shall be a federation or a confederation of states, and they also shall decide the moment when it will take the shape of a state." Candidates for inclusion in the new state, as listed by Dimitrov: Bulgaria, Albania, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia "and even Greece...
...last car of the stalled train was a steel sleeper, and the steel held. Ahead was a wood-&-steel day coach; the steel sleeper drove into it like a battering ram. Forty-eight hours later, after relief trains and planes had got to Wykes, near Parent in northern Quebec's lonely logging country, the deaths stood at nine. More than 50 had been injured. It was Quebec's worst railroad wreck, in number of fatalities, in twelve years...
...story goes that passengers got so used to late trains that they came late to catch them. But they hardly expected to see, even on the eccentric Rock Island, the automobile, equipped with railroad wheels, that came down the track one day in 1936. In it was a man who looked like Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was John Dow Farrington, 56. A railroader since 18, he had just been hired away from the Burlington Lines to pull the rocky Rock Island together. And he spent most of his first six months riding its 7,650 miles of track (much...