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...Prince Edward Island, J. Angus MacLean, 36, farmer and World War II flyer, who broke the P.E.I. tradition by not buying drinks for the voters on election...
Under normal circumstances, the engineman of the Pennsylvania Railroad's flyer Red Arrow has a clear track as his train roars through Philadelphia's famed Main Line suburbs on its run from Detroit. But as it came hurtling in toward the city at 7:30 one morning last week, complications developed up ahead; the Philadelphia-bound Pittsburgh Night Express-which was running 48 minutes late on the same track-had been stopped up ahead by a block signal near the station at Bryn Mawr...
Other signals began flashing a warning (repeated by colored lights in the cab of the Red Arrow's 320-ton electric locomotive) back along the narrowing interval of steel between the two trains. Near Villanova, a mile and a quarter west of the stalled express, the oncoming flyer was ordered to "stop & proceed" at no more than 15 m.p.h. The Red Arrow slid obediently to a halt. But when it started again it inexplicably began picking up speed...
Unfortunately, the deputy fireman had been drafted into the army. Up went notices saying that from March 5 to March 17 the railroad would close down; customers would have to travel by specially hired buses. For three days the Flyer stayed sadly in its shed. One bus broke down and a car was hired. Then the railroad's top officials heard about the rustic crisis, quickly fetched old Flyerman George Nicholson from another line. Said George warmly: "I jumped at the chance. For seven years I fired this train. I'm fond...
Last week, as churchbells pealed out for the newlyweds, the Flyer was running again. Grinned the bridegroom: "It's been a proper joke around here...