Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thirty-five years ago this month, Secretary of War Newton D. Baker bade Godspeed to a convoy of 63 Army trucks leaving Washington on a daring transcontinental trek to prove that the gasoline engine had really replaced the mule. With the motor train rode a young Army observer, Lieut. Dwight D. Eisenhower. When the trucks crawled into San Francisco on Sept. 5, after 60 days and 6,000 breakdowns, the lieutenant was a confirmed advocate of an adequate, all-weather U.S. road system...
...State learned how naive they had been. In Moscow the Russian government announced that it was expelling two assistant U.S. attachées, Lieut. Colonel Howard Felchlin (Army) and Major Walter McKinney (Air), for "espionage work." The Soviet newspaper Trud had accused them of spying on a train trip across Siberia eleven months ago. After the Moscow announcement, State Department officials rushed forward to announce that they had done the first expelling, albeit secretly, and that Moscow's action was obviously retaliation...
...several hours in Manhattan last week, the presidents of the four biggest eastern railroads met with the train builders of ACF Industries to discuss a radical train. The roads: New York Central, New York, New Haven & Hartford, Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania. The train the railroaders had in mind was similar to ACF's swift "Talgo" express, which has been running for four years on Spanish railroads (TIME, April...
Built of aluminum and other lightweight metals, Talgo's cars are only 7 ft. 6 in. from floor to ceiling, 4 ft. lower than current coaches. Inside, travelers sit in reclining airplane-type seats, look out big picture windows, put their luggage in forward compartments. The low train can whip into curves smoothly at 90 m.p.h., v. the 50-60 m.p.h. of today's flyers. It weighs only one-third as much as current trains, requires only 40% as much fuel for the same speed, can be built at an estimated $1,300 a seat...
...mile run between New Haven and Boston last week, the New Haven's new president, Patrick B. McGinnis, who wooed stockholders with the promise of better passenger service, put on a demonstration of ACF's speedy train. With special ICC permission, the engineer disregarded the 60-m.p.h. speed limit on curves, went into the turns at 87 m.p.h. On the long straightaways, he pushed ACF's Talgo up to 102.8 m.p.h. and pulled into Boston in 150 minutes. Though it was a stop-and-start experimental run, the time was still ten minutes better than the best...