Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...urging that the engineer of the overtaking train be "drastically punished" (i. e. shot), the government newsorgan Izvestia conjectured that he had run past a stop signal to earn a bonus for being on time, added, "During 1934 there have been 63 proven instances of engineers passing closed semaphores on the Moscow-Leningrad line to earn such premiums...
...feet of snow have been reported at Crawford Notch, which is the destination of this week's snow train. All these depths will probably be altered, however, by the heavy snow fall, which bodes well for the weekend skiing...
Faster than Twentieth Century (54.1 m.p.h.), faster than the Broadway Limited (51.2 m.p.h.), faster than the Burlington's famed Zephyr (49.5 m.p.h.) was the train that Chicago & North Western Ry, sent over the rails between Chicago and Minneapolis last week. Called The 400 because it covers 400 miles in 400 minutes, North Western's new train made railroad history by being the fastest train scheduled on the American Continent, fastest in all the world on a stretch over 200 mi. But what made The 400 really significant news was that it was neither lightweight nor streamlined, powered...
Highly annoyed by North Western's new train last week was Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific R. R. Milwaukee officials claimed North Western had "jumped the gun" on a gentlemen's agreement between the Milwaukee, Burlington and North Western to institute high-speed schedules simultaneously next March. Caught napping, the Milwaukee Road quickly inaugurated mile-a-minute service between Chicago and Milwaukee (85 mi.), pushed delivery of two streamlined engines for its Chicago-Twin Cities route. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. quietly announced that it would put two Zephyrs on the Twin Cities run within 60 days, knock...
...know my wife will jump and shout When de train roll up and I come steppin...