Word: zeph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...condenser, which was repaired while the train coasted down a 20 mi. incline. These vexations overcome, Zephyr began to show her heels-80, 90, 100, 110, 112.5 m.p.h. In the rear solarium some coffee spilled as the train rocketed around curves at 90 m. p. h. Twice "Zeph," the burro, toppled over. Folk turned out by the cheering thousands in 164 dust-bitten western towns through which Zephyr flashed. Two thousand five hundred constables, legionaries, volunteer citizens, railway men guarded 1,689 grade crossings. All Burlington traffic was sidetracked, all spring switches spiked down. Breaking railroad records by the score...