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Railroading is in his blood recalls Washington's booming days
Tom Ryan recalls the Rock Island and Milwaukee lines in Washington during the 1920s through World War II. He describes the million dollar stockyard scale of cattle shipments, cantaloupe trains from California, and three grades of passenger service. He notes wages, rules, and the shift to gas electric cars in 1926, plus dramatic wrecks and wartime troop movements.
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