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Railroad Stories: The Way It Was
Railroader Stories
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Reading switcher shoves frozen Doodlebug
Railroader Stories
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Railroad mail service on the Burlington
Railroader Stories
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Railroad strike duty: the job nobody liked
Railroader Stories
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The runaway train that didn’t
Railroader Stories
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Life of a railroad tower operator
Railroader Stories
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Railroad Labor Strike of the Century
Railroader Stories
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1950s EMD customer relations — a different take
Railroader Stories
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Chicago & North Western equipment testers used their own weight
Railroader Stories
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Stopping up traffic on the Illinois Central during World War II
Railroader Stories
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Flying on the Carolina Special
