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Show THE NEW "M-1001." Recently a blunt-nosed train, looking look-ing much like a rocket on wheels, rolled into the Grand Central station sta-tion in New York. Bearing the name "M-1001," it brought with it, in the words of the New York Herald Tribune, Tri-bune, "the railroad's answer to aviation." avia-tion." Only 57 hours before, it had left Los Angeles a continent away. Counting all stops, it averaged almost a mile a minute on the run and those aboard spent but two business days in transit. M-1001 is a new development by the Union Pacific railroad, which has pioneered so many phases of transport trans-port in the past. Stream-lined to the highest practical degTee, and built of aluminum, the train represents the ultimate in comfort, speed and efficiency. effi-ciency. It marks a new forward step in the long march of development of surface transportation. It is a far cry from the day when the golden spike was driven, marking the completion of the first tjjfs-continental tjjfs-continental railroad, and a wheezy' lo- comotive moved forward to the shouts of jubilant thousands, to the day when the M-1001 pulled triumphantly triumphant-ly into New York. The best in railroad rail-road travel of that time was much inferior to the worst of the present. Yet, as time is measured, the spike was driven only yesterday almost all of the major progress in railroad transport has taken place within living liv-ing memory. The American railroads have shown a spirit of aggressiveness aggressive-ness and the "will to achieve" that constitutes one of the most dramatic and inspiring pages in our industrial annals. To quote the Herald Tribune again, "It is hard to doubt that passenger . travel on the railroads is entering a new period." When the M-1001, cro'ss-j cro'ss-j ed the United States, clipping' off a mile every sixty seconds, it made transportation history. |