Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Train Telephones
TIME, May 10, on p. 52 under Transport states that ". . . nowhere can train travelers telephone beyond the train when it is moving." A number of years ago the Deutsche Reichsbahn started installing regular telephone service from moving trains to outside points in the country...
...bulletin of the German Railroads gives the following description of its operation: "While broadcasting does play an important function in the train telephone system, the method employed is really' a combination of ordinary and wireless telephony. There are three sending stations for the Berlin-Hamburg route, one at each end of the line, and another midway between the cities. Messages from ordinary telephones in homes, offices, or hotels, come to the nearest of these three stations by wire in the usual manner. At the stations they are taken up by a high frequency sending device and broadcast...
With reference to a statement in TIME May 10, that "nowhere can train travelers telephone beyond the train when it is moving," we are pleased to inform you that...
...North Caucasus region, preparations were afoot last week for yet another treason trial of railway chiefs and others, charged with causing 17 train wrecks in January alone. Many of the accused have already confessed, including one Burstein, head of the Mineralnye Vody traffic department. Pravda, official news-organ of the Communist Party, urged the Soviet to make its enemies "pay with gallons of blood for every drop of workers' blood they shed...