The trick was to find the balance between strength and weight, instead of just building the strength to carry the weight.I found that steel was strong...r by weight than iron, and made good springs where needed as well, improving the handling of the power that developed. My geometric eye could see just how to shape the beams of the frame to realize the greatest strength with- well at least with less material.It was the Swiss and German steel which had special properties due to rare earths that. There was a sudden knock on the door to his office."Excuse me Tom," Assitand of Disaplin Orion Dunn said as he entered Tom's office. "I wonder if I might have a moment of your time."Sighing inwardly Tom stopped packing the box on his desk and said, "What do you want Orion? You should be happy, the school is putting me out to pasture and that means that you will get my job at last." I'm sorry about that Tom," Orion said not daring to look his former friend in the eyes. "I didn't want it to. "She is waiting for her whipping" the woman told me. "Please follow me." She went down the hall to a bedroom and I entered before her. She shut the door. There was a double bed with a lace comforter and a pile of pillows at the head. There were paddles, whips and spanking straps hanging on one wall and an umbrella stand full of canes next to the bed. "Please undress to your panties", she told me. I asked to go out, so that I can undress my clothes. She told me that I have to undress it in. Most likely the Chief would leave before the Wind even got in to the station. They would be on the ground running, because of the Desert Wind's incredible lateness, Santa Fe would try to run it - and resultantly the Chief - through the stops as quickly as possible.He made it to the door of the sleeping car just as the Desert Wind came to a rest. Not bothering to wait for the sleeping car attendant to open the coach door- luckily, since he had been slugged- he quickly undogged the door latches.