In a stunt meant to demonstrate the free-rolling characteristics of freight cars equipped with Timken roller bearings, three women — Jackie White, Jean Crow, and Chris Roberts — heave on a new 55-ton hopper car at Western Maryland’s Port Covington yard in Baltimore in the 1950s.
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Roller-bearing stunt on the Western Maryland
By Angela Cotey | June 19, 2013
| Last updated on January 7, 2021
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