Pulse of Railroading The Communications System
The article explains the rail system's pulse through timetables and separate tracks, freight and passenger priorities, and extensive signal networks. It describes central control tracking train positions, signaling, and rapid responses to delays. It also covers train telegraphs gathering weather data and routing around damaged tracks, plus off line uses like fishing reports at remote spots.
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Rapid Creek
Central Station
Gregory Peck Hospitalized With Eye Inflammation
Hollywood report says actor Gregory Peck was hospitalized at St Johns last night with an inflamed eye. Production on the film Twelve O Clock High halted after Peck began to suffer irritation following a flight from Florida with director Henry King in Kings plane.
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Hollywood
Gregory Peck
St. Johns Hospital
Henry King
Florida
King
St Patrick and Snakes Myth Exploded
Yale professor Edward S. Deevey Jr. argues in Scientific American that a prehistoric glaciers event wiped out life in northern Europe and left Ireland an island, explaining why snakes never inhabited Ireland. He notes the Irish Sea is deeper than the English Channel and that animals moved differently after ice receded.
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New Haven
Conn
Yale
St. Patrick
Ireland
Edward S. Deevey, Jr
Scientific American
Ered
England
Deevey
Irish Sea
English Channel
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Union Pacific
Gate City
Peck
St. Patrick and Snakes
Martin Furniture Co
Ing
California
Pocatello
America
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