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Fifty-six Fast Mail Defies Odds on Clinch River Run
Holcomb orders a high risk test to beat the New Orleans mail schedule. George Ambhorn and Jim Angus push a five car Pennsylvanian mail train down a perilous coal route, losing decks of coal and parts, yet delivering the mail nearly on time amid wrecks, fires, and splits in the line, earning devotion from the railroad workers.
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Newee
New York Mail Service
Washington Monument
Washington
Shore Line
Riverview Junction
Notog
Jersey City
Southern Railway
P Vania
Mississippi
Louisiana
Holcomb
McStewart
Dennis O'Rourke
Johnnie Baptiste
Clinch River
Baldwin Works
Pennsylvania
Damascus Junction
North End
Silver Creek
Valley View
McKelly
O. S
Ambhorn
North Division
New Orleans
South End
Jim Bolins
Hardluck Bolins
Bolins
Bancroft
Archa
George Ambhorn
Bob
Blue Mountain
Old George
George
1063
Jim Angus
Mwil
Mna House
Railroad Avenue
Jeke
George Amhorn
Gettine
Amharn
Jerkwater
Rainy Creek
Angus
Glenvar
Frankift Road
Glenvill
Jim
Sam
Pine Creek
Amtorn
Leverybody
Rugby
Goor
Jun