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Lonesome Night Operator Defies Isolation at Joliet Junction
Florence Connell of Romeoville staff s the midnight to 8 am shift at the Plaines junction station where Chicago and Alton and Santa Fe rails cross. The 11 year veteran relays train movements with a lantern telegraph keys and a typewriter while isolated by storms hobos and vast woods. Her only fears are flying in an airplane and the dangers of the lone post amid howling winds and drifting snow.
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Will County
Plaines
Chicago and Alton
Santa Fe
Joliet
Florence Connell
Romeoville
Miss Connell