Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Summerlin's responsibilities begin when the royal train crosses the international boundary from Canada shortly before midnight Wednesday. They continue until the visitors recross the boundary early Monday morning, except for such time as Their Majesties are in the company of President Roosevelt. Then Colonel Starling takes over...
...great foe of fliers, is no fun for railroaders either. One night last week fog was thick on the Pennsylvania R.R.'s tracks near Bradford, Ohio. An eastbound freight stopped at Bradford for coal. Another train, following too closely behind, rammed into it, flinging wreckage onto the adjoining track. On that track a fast fruit train, hauled by two locomotives, was booming along with an all-clear signal. It butted into the debris; a half-mile of cars slithered off the rails like a wounded snake. Three crew men were killed, four more badly hurt. It was the worst...
...York, New Haven and Hartford tracks near Newington, Conn, last week stood a work train with a power shovel mounted on a flat car. In the shovel's cab was Operator Burrell Wilhelm. His foot slipped and he fell against a control lever. At that moment a Montreal-Washington express, full of people who had gone to Canada to see the King and Queen of England, shot down the track. Burrell Wilhelm's cab swung out into the express train's path. It bounced off the locomotive, cut through the side of a day coach, tore open...
University of Maryland, scouts have had their eyes on a crack shortstop, Eddie Johnson, son of the Immortal "Big Train...
...fine idea. When King George and Queen Elizabeth reached Winnipeg on their tour of Canada (see p. 23), Minnesota would send a delegation to greet them, thereby stealing a march on the other 47 United States and providing the Star with a good promotion stunt. As the Royal Train neared Winnipeg last week the city was jammed with some 15,000 visitors from nearby States; twoscore U. S. bands were on hand to play God Save The King; a squadron of U. S. Army planes from Minneapolis was hovering overhead; and Minnesota's Governor Harold E. Stassen was waiting...