Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FARMERS north of Louisville, Ky. were startled late one afternoon last fall by a strange spectacle coming down the B. & 0. railroad tracks. Rolling along at 3 m.p.h. was a Speno rail-grinding train. Six feet out from the last car was mounted a camera on a makeshift brace of 2 by 6 planks and spikes. Behind the camera a 6-ft.-5-in., 250-lb. man trotted along the ties, triggering the camera to catch the brilliant constellations of sparks thrown off by the rail grinders...
...prized new rolling stock. Union Pacific blocked its main line 30 minutes at Green River, Wyo., while Vandivert photographed three different types of power plants used in mountain hauling. Southern Pacific trainmen, not to be outdone, tape-measured the 4,745-11. length of an 87-car piggyback freight train, laid out the same distance along California's San Luis Obispo horseshoe curve and carefully spotted the train for Vandivert's dramatic storytelling picture of piggyback hauling...
...lthough Burgin is forgetful in his private life (once he even left his Stradivarius on his commuter train), he has a legendary memory for music. And many times he has saved the situation when a conductor lost his place-by simply playing on until the maestro found himself again. In the words of the late Felix Weingartner, Burgin says: "As long as even one piccolo is playing, we don't give...
...Next week, after his spell in the limelight, Concertmaster Burgin will be back at his accustomed chair in Boston. He will mark the bowings efficiently, play his passages beautifully, and go home to Brookline on his usual commuter train, where trainmen have instructions to see that he does not lose his Stradivarius...
RAILROADS The Devil & Dan'l Webster On a preinaugural demonstration of his new, light, low-gravity-center train, New Haven President George Alpert last week savored the unaccustomed compliments of 225 guests, mostly newsmen, along for the ride. The Dan'l Webster, a nine-car, $1,500,000 train, powered by low-slung diesel locomotives fore and aft, was noticeably smoother and quieter than standard equipment though it cost only $1,650 per seat v. $2,850 for the conventional type. As the train from Boston rolled into the outskirts of Manhattan, it was right on time...