 | Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith - Transportation - 2002 - 52 pages
...point.... When it first turned that circle, and came near the starting point, I was right in front of it; and I said then, and I believe still, it was one of...left its track and is climbing up in the air right towards you — a locomotive without any wheels, we will say, but with white wings instead. Well, now,... | |
 | Janet Rose Daly Bednarek, Roger D. Launius - Transportation - 2003 - 326 pages
...the starting point, I was right in front of it; and I said then, and I believe it still, it was . . . the grandest sight of my life. Imagine a locomotive...right toward you—a locomotive without any wheels . . . but with white wings instead ... a locomotive made of aluminum.... I tell you friends, the sensation... | |
 | Stephen B. Goddard - History - 2003 - 236 pages
...grandest sight ofmy life.” It “outrivals the Arabian Nights,” he told the readers ofhis magazine: Imagine a locomotive that has left its track and is climbing up in the air right toward you — a locomotive without any wheels, we will say, but with white wings instead . . . a locomotive... | |
 | James Tobin - History - 2003 - 468 pages
...downright unnerving, whether out of fear for the pilot or sheer shock at the sight, or both. Yet Root “said then, and I believe still, it was one of the...sights, if not the grandest sight, of my life.” He groped for a comparison. “Imagine a locomotive that has left its track, and is climbing up in... | |
 | James Tobin - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 464 pages
...downright unnerving, whether out of fear for the pilot or sheer shock at the sight, or both. Yet Root “said then, and I believe still, it was one of the...sights, if not the grandest sight, of my life.” He groped for a comparison. “Imagine a locomotive that has left its track, and is climbing up in... | |
 | Janet Benge, Geoff Benge - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2006 - 212 pages
...aloft. When it first turned that circle and came near the starting point, I was right in front of it; and I said then, and I believe still, it was one of...the grandest sight, of my life. Imagine a locomotive without any wheels, we will say, but with white wings instead, we will further say—a locomotive made... | |
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and I said then, and I believe still, it was one of the grandest sights, if not the grandest sight, of my life. Imagine a locomotive that has left its track, and is climbing up in the air right toward you—a locomotive without any wheels, we will say,... 