Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through your Oct. 12 issue for some report of President Roosevelt's visit to Elkins, W. Va., to speak and attend the Mountain State Forest Festival. He went from there to speak in Pittsburgh. I searched in vain, for it wasn't to be found. His special train was met by Governor Kump, Senator Neely and others. He was introduced to the crowd of at least 20,000 by Governor Kump and after his talk on reforestation he witnessed the beautiful coronation ceremony of Queen Sylvia VII. At least 100,000 people were in Elkins for the three...
Frequently during the first half of the journey, the train stopped to let enthusiasts get pictures of historic spots or routine railroad practice "behind the scenes." Highlights were a refueling station near Hebron, an old covered bridge near Liberty Mills, the engine house at Fort Wayne, where a turntable was turned, engineers posed and various locomotives were arrayed with placards explaining size, name, power, type, use. At each stop there were lectures by guides in overalls and white gauntlets. Other amusements consisted of a World Series broadcast, bridge games, an accordion player. Next trip is scheduled...
...freight from the du Pont factory in Wilmington, Del. Last week, in a special car pulled by a special engine. Dr. Ernst's dynamite arrived. Confronted with the difficulty of transporting a package no bigger than a soap box which was nonetheless capable of blowing up a complete train, du Pont had hired a whole boxcar, nailed the crate to the floor in the middle, sealed the doors, plastered the outside with placards screaming EXPLOSIVES! The car was then coupled to a regular freight train, rolled north to Poughkeepsie. No freight train was available to carry...
...Julius Caesar, St. Augustine of Canterbury, William the Conqueror and almost everyone else through the ages who has traveled between England and the Continent, the English Channel has been an annoying journey. This week marks a partial end of that ancient inconvenience. It is now possible to board a train in London, go to sleep, and wake next morning in Paris, as one of three big train-ferries carries the whole train across the 50 rough miles of water from Dover to Dunkirk...
...Train ferries are not new. On the Channel, they were first tried during the War for freight only. The new passenger service required the building not only of new ferries, but of new railway cars. The cars are smaller than standard, to take up less room aboard ship, which also carries a garage. Although the ferries can accommodate twelve sleeping cars on four tracks, the first train tried on the run was made of only four cars. It left Paris at 11:30 p. m.. reached Victoria Station next morning. Cost of first class ticket...