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Cannon-ball into the town on time, he was said that the engineer of another train fell ill and couldn’t
make his run. Casey offered to substitute his friend and pulled the train out of the station at 11 p.m.
The train was already one hour and thirty-five minutes late at the start.
Casey wanted to make up the time
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and he ran his locomotive at a high speed. By four o’clock
in the morning he had made up most of the time, but suddenly in front of his engine, as he came
round a curve, he saw a standing freight train on the rails.
“Jump, Sim,” he cried.
Sim Webb, fireman to Casey Jones, jumped and lived to tell the story. Casey’s body was found
with one hand still on the whistle and one on the air-brake.
There is a monument to Casey Jones in his native town in Kentucky. In 1950 the United States
Government put out a three-cent stamp in honor of American railroad engineers, which has the
portrait of Casey Jones and a picture of the old Locomotive 382.
Notes:
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would not save – не захотел спасти
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would – зд: бывало
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to stand on end – вставать дыбом
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to make up the time – наверстать время
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THE TRANS-SIBERIAN MAINLINE
Siberia is a vast expanse of land that stretches across Russia from the Ural Mountains in the
west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. In the 19th century Siberia [to be] Russia’s frontier—thinly
populated, largely unexplored, yet possessing vast economic potential. Settlement in the region [to
remain] sparse until the building of the unique Trans-Siberian Railroad, which [to connect] the
European part of the country with the Pacific Coast and [to make] large-scale immigration possible.
According to Minister of Railways S.Yu. Witte: “The Great Siberian Railway [to breathe] new life
into boundless Siberian lands.”
The history of railway construction in Russia [to start] at the end of the 19
th
century. Railway
mainlines [to lay down] from the Western borders of the country to St. Petersburg and Moscow,
from the center to the Volga region and from the Urals to Central Asia. In 1892 the railway network
in Russia [to have] a total length of 32,000 km. That very year Samara-Zlatoust railway [to build]
which later became a liaison between railways in the European part of Russia and the Trans-
Siberian Mainline.
On March 15, 1891 Alexander III [to issue] an imperial prescript addressed to future Emperor
Nicholay II which [to state]: “I command to start constructing a railway across all Siberia to connect
the Siberian region with the European part of Russia. I also entrust you with ground-breaking
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of the
Great Siberian Track in Vladivostok.”
Two projects of the future mainline [to propose] – “the southern version” and “the northern
version”. “The northern version” suggested by the Minister of Railways K.N. Posyet [to win].
According to his project the railway [to be] shorter by 400 km and was passing by the Siberian high
road
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and populated areas.
The building of the Great Siberian Track [to begin] in 1893. Work [to start] at the same time
from both the eastern and western terminals. The plan originally [to call] for an all-Russian road,
but a treaty with China in 1896 [to enable] the Russians to construct an 800-mile (1,300-kilometer)
line through Manchuria, thus shortening the distance to Vladivostok. After Manchuria [to pass] to
Japanese hands following the Russian-Japanese War of 1904—05, the Russians [to proceed] with a
longer railway entirely on their own territory. Construction rates [to be] very fast despite the fact
that the railroad [to go] through swamps, thick taiga, [to cross] major rivers and huge mountains.
One of the main obstacles to completion of the line [to be] Lake Baikal, where there [to be] ferry
service. A loop around the lakeshore [to complete] in 1905. By 1916 the Amur River line north of

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