Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Click. The company had been offered the use of liquefied butane∙ for running the new train. According to experience of the rival Southern Pacific which has been trying out liquid butane, the synthetic fuel cuts fuel costs two to three cents a mile, lubricating costs one to two cents a mile...
...Union Pacific train will consist of three cars hinged together and seating 116 passengers. Four-wheel trucks will carry the entire train-one under the fore end, one under the rear end and one under each car joint. The whole will be thoroughly streamlined with windows flush and operating gadgets pocketed. Motive power will be electricity generated in the forward car by a gasoline (or butane) motor, otherwise by an oil-driven Diesel. Exulted Chairman Harriman last week: "The train is fully streamlined to a greater extent than has been attempted to date either in this or any foreign country...
...train could get to the Chicago exposition before its end, she might well blow a salute to an old steam locomotive chuffing around the neighborhood. Old No. 999, the New York Central engine, which put thrills into the melodramas of the 1890's, in 1893 attained a record of 112½ m.p.h. for 1 mi. at Cuttenden, near Buffalo, N. Y.∙ Her engineer on that run, Charlie Hogan of Buffalo, was again at her old throttle last week...
...Developed by T. H. Kruttschnitt, son of the late able Railroader Julius Kruttschnitt. ∙Later records: a Plant System train at 120 m.p.h. for 5 mi. between Fleming and Jacksonville, Fla. in 1901; a Philadelphia & Reading train at 115.2 m.p.h. for 4.8 mi. between Egg Harbor and Brigantine Junction...
...Water Valley. Miss., Henry Brassell and his wife had been listening for 20 years to the "music" of Illinois Central trains hurtling past their house. One day they detected a new sound, rushed out to the tracks, found a split rail over which the express had miraculously passed, flagged the next train, were praised for preventing a sure wreck...