Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maynard Canfield will move up from number five to number three, since neither Connie Fisher nor Ben Heckscher can make the trip. In the fourth slot will be Cal Place, up from the seventh position. At fifth singles will be Ian Gianetti, followed by Pete Krogh at sixth. These last two are normally the fourteenth and fifteenth men on the ladder...
...rail-fan movement began right here in Boston during the depression when people deeply reconsidered established values. Automobiles had become a bore because as modern contraptions they were devoid of all nostalgia. Railroad Enthusiasts, Inc., the group which sponsored Sunday's trip, organized in 1933, and quickly established chapters in Hartford, New York, Portland, and Taunton, Mass. Pretty soon there were a million members all over the country--buying magazines (Sample want ad: "Pictures needed of cabooses seen from the side."), swapping photographs (Advertised Mr. G. A. Porter of Savannah, Ga.: "8 X 10 neg. of A-AWP supplement...
Under the guidance of Howard Greene, Trip Chairman, the Boston chapter now meets once a month, and up to 125 members attend discussions of railroad topics. "Some of us just never grow up," Greene believes. "We may mature in some ways, but there's always something of a kid in a rail fan." Greene has carried his kidstuff to the point that he now possesses one of the country's largest libraries of railroadiania--about 3,500 volumes, "though I can't match Harvard's collection," he admits...
...Successful Trip...
Judging from the crowd on Sunday's train, the expedition was one the warmed the cockles of Patrick McGinnis' heart. Old 3713 was not only pulling a full pay load; prospects for another trip seem very good despite early advertising that this was positively the B & M's last steam trip. All steam power was originally scheduled for retirement soon, but the railroad has begun stalling, and 3713, the last of 25 P-4's built in 1935 for heavy express service, may pull a few more trains, after all. Rail fans speculate that the railroad, which has excused...