Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Ogden. Utah, Fireman Ollie Lance of Union Pacific's No. 19 sneezed. No. 19 came to a sudden, sickening halt. Out piled the train crew, out piled the passengers, to search the tracks until they found Fireman Ollie Lance's lost false teeth...
...night desks) until midnight. It might include lunch at the Algonquin or a bite with some of his staff in Blake's, the Herald Tribune saloon. Back at his desk, smoking innumerable cigars, he would see the first edition onto the presses, return to Blake's, catch a midnight train out to Great Neck, L. I. where he lives. On the train he reads one of the early editions so he can telephone back further instructions when he gets home...
...rustic souls, devoted to dairying, inhabit the lovely Ausable valley which runs 23" miles in a generally south-west direction from the city of Plattsburg, N. Y. Since 1894 Leonor Fresnel Loree's Delaware & Hudson Co. R. R. had served them well. The inhabitants told time by the train's whistle, their cows grazed contentedly as the locomotive chuffed uncertainly...
...morning in 1929 the Ausable countryside remained strangely quiet. Passenger trains had ceased running; the ticket windows were closed in Ausable Forks. Rogers, Arnold, Harkness, Peru, Salmon River, Cliff Haven, all the way to Plattsburg. And that might have been the end of passenger trains in the Ausable valley had not there soon returned from a trip to Greenland small, baldish Artist Rockwell Kent. When Artist Kent found there was no train to his home at the end of the line he was furious. Never afraid of a fight or of publicity, he determined to battle bushy-bearded old Railroader...
George, 12-year-old son of Comedian Cliff Edwards ("Ukulele Ike"), fell under a freight train near Chicago, had to have both legs amputated...