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Railway Passenger Service Summary
4,443 words, approx. 15 pages Travelers usually have a choice among several transportation alternatives, most prominent being automobile, bus, airplane and railway. Rail was the preferred means of travel in the mid-nineteenth century and continuing until the 1920s, but began to...
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Train and Railroad Summary
2,164 words, approx. 7 pages The use of rails, or other types of guides, for roads dates to antiquity, when the Greeks and Romans carved trails in stone streets to guide cart wheels. By the third century b.c. this system of sunken guide ways was used in some parts of China. The...
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Train Information
2,685 words, approx. 9 pages
 An SP freight train west of Chicago in 1992. A train in Oslo, Norway The Mumbai Suburban Railway in India has the largest passenger density in the world An electric Transperth train at Mclver, Perth, Western Australia A British Rail Class 153 DMU...




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 Law & Order
Train Training
10/01/2004: 1,823 words, approx. 6 pages What weighs 125 tons, can supply enough electricity to run a small city, moves through your jurisdiction at speeds of up to 70 MPH and takes more than a mile to stop? Answer: a diesel locomotive. Most law enforcement jurisdictions have trains running...
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 Washington Jewish Week
Trains
08/03/2006: 858 words, approx. 3 pages based on a true story The Kharkov train station seethed with activity. Porters heaving giant suitcases shoved their way through the churning crowds. Passengers scurried about, buying tickets, checking and rechecking their luggage. Newsboys touted the latest headlines. Zev Tannenbaum looked at...
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 The New York Observer
Training Day
9/4/2007: 687 words, approx. 2 pages 3:10 TO YUMARunning time 117 minutesWritten by Halsted Welles, Michael Brandt and Derek HaasDirected by James MangoldStarring Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Peter Fonda James Mangold’s 3:10 to Yuma, from a screenplay by Halsted Welles, Michael Brandy and Derek Haas, and based on the short story...
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Training Wheels
7/31/2007: 506 words, approx. 2 pages On a sultry night in late July, a friend offered to introduce me to a guy she thought I’d like. “He’s tall, smart, and funny,” she’d said, and as an afterthought: “Oh, and a little depressed. He’s just out of a bad marriage.” “No thanks,”...


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