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[...] This VerLeonimising A
ponderous power of steam and steel,

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taking a treasure store of New
England merchandise into the night.

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The night freight calls our attention to
an element of time, the bright time of

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day, and here is the dark time of night.

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Railroading is on a 24-hour schedule.

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Despite the elements and never mind the
weather, be it fair or stormy, hail,

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sleet or snow,
the night freight must go through.

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The conductor in the caboose
keeps a record of all the cars.

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And the night freight seems to sing a
song of work, a song with the refrain,

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every day 24 hours a day.

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The Yankee Clipper meanwhile arrives
at New Haven, and this brings a

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transformation from steam to electricity.

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From coal and fire to boats and amperes,
the steam locomotive leaves the train.

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From Boston and from Springfield to New Haven,
the motive power is provided

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by superheated steam.

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Then for the remainder of the run,
the energy to drive the wheels

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is provided by dynamos.

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The electric locomotive is a
thing of streamlined efficiency,

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a monarch of high tension.

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Electricity has been a comparatively
recent story in American railroading.

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It began in 1895 on the New Haven Railroad,
which pioneered in

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overhead high tension lines.

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Now the Clipper goes

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speeding under electrical power.

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We're in a new world of railroading,
a realm where a hundred thunderbolts of

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Jupiter are harnessed to
turn the wheels of trains.

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The sources of electric power are coal
and steam, and at this railroad-owned

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powerhouse, the boilers are 60 feet high.

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The heat meters register 2,000 degrees,
generating steam with a pressure of

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300 pounds to the square inch.

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Powdered coal blown into the furnace
and burning in suspension in the air.

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The turbo generators hum at 1,500 revolutions
per minute to produce in a single

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year over 100 million kilowatts of electricity.

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The nerve center of the powerhouse, the main

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control room with its elaborate equipment.

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Here watch the lies check the surge
of power through the overhead

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lines, railroad power.

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A masterpiece of road bed construction
and maintenance is this four-track

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electrified right-of-way.

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Over it passed between six and
seven hundred trains a day.