Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East Los Angeles young Mr. Harriman, who, like his father before him, now chairmans the Union Pacific's board, stepped into his company's newest train, sat down in a Pullman named "E. H. Harriman." Also aboard were U. P.'s President Carl Raymond Gray, and many an other bigwig. This was no ordinary train; it was the railroad's answer to aviation-a sleek streak of canary-yellow speed...
...Valley's heat. Up steep grades of the Rockies M10001 sped at over 50 m.p.h., shot through the snow-capped passes of the Continental Divide, glided swiftly across the prairies. Between Dix and Potter, Neb. it covered two miles in one minute flat. Never before had a passenger train hit 120 m.p.h.* After a run of 38 hr. 49 min. from Los Angeles M10001 glided smoothly into Chicago's La Salle Street Station, 20 hours ahead of the fastest regular train schedule on that route...
Because of an agreement with New York Central, the U. P. train had to stick to Twentieth Century's 17¾-hr. schedule from Chicago to New York. Loafing along at 60 m.p.h., it sprinted just once, between Buffalo and Batavia, to touch 112.5 m.p.h. and thereby equal the 41-year-old record of famed Engine No. 999, hauling the Empire State Express. M10001 cruised at half-throttle through the misty Mohawk Valley, stepped lightly down along the Hudson River to Mott Haven, where it stopped. From that point on it was ignominiously towed into New York...
...Boston, Rev. Dr. Phillips Endecott Osgood of Emanuel Church and Rev. Dr. Arthur Lee ("Little Tui") Kinsolving of Trinity Church announced a Thursday afternoon "Snow Train Service," to begin this week. Rectors of Boston's two largest Episcopal churches, they wish to bring back to church that "large and significant element in the modern community" who are kept away from Sunday worship by "the automobile and the suburban out-of-door week-end." Rectors Osgood and Kinsolving will participate jointly in the "Snow Train Service," so named after the special train on which Bostonians travel to winter weekends...
...Baton Rouge, after Louisiana students, some of whom were not above using pseudonyms to get the Senator's bounty twice, had "borrowed" $3,000. 5,000 students and townspeople last week clambered aboard five special 14-coach trains painted red, white, blue, orange and green. Going through Mississippi, Huey Long stood on the rear platform of the first train, waving and shouting at crowds assembled on station platforms, farmers working in fields. With him were the members of his private bodyguard, whom he had arranged to take along as "deputy game wardens...