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...spite of this act of blackest treachery, Beebe has remained the chief spokesman for a rather intriguing group of Americans who are passionately interested in trains. The Age of Steam, his latest effort in the field, is intended as a memorial to the machine largely responsible for the existence of the railfan...
...steam locomotive was, as everybody knows, a potent factor in the historical growth of America, spreading with the railroad into the everyday existence of people everywhere. Few early observers were friendly toward this snorting monster; they found it smelly, noisy, and even dangerous to the established horse and buggy order. But, as time went on, the steam engine became a familiar and even nostalgic item on the national scene...
...original proposal for a 15% shift. Canada, he said, would switch all possible government purchasing from the U.S. to the U.K., would send a high-level trade delegation to Britain, and would consider lowering barriers against purchases in Britain by Canadian tourists. For his part, Thorneycroft soothingly took the steam out of his free-trade proposal by describing it as such a long-term project, i.e., twelve to 15 years, that he expected no official Canadian reply...
...next year will start building biggest U.S. steam generating unit. Located 45 miles southwest of Chattanooga, the $86 million generator will have capacity...
When a group of townspeople asked Pacific Power & Light, which had recently bought out local Wyoming electric utility interests, to build a coal-fired steam electric plant at Glenrock, the company had no more idea of complying, said one company official, "than we had of flying to the moon." But, for the sake of public relations, the company agreed to send geologists. Their reports were eye-popping. Within 15 miles of an ideal plant site were 50 million tons of coal in fat seams, close enough to the surface to be mined by power shovels. Last year Pacific Power broke...