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Rail Stories

  • Interview with Frank Bradford a retired brakeman who worked for the SP from 1943 to 1975. David Crammer brings us a great interview full of facts and stories of over 30 years on the railroad.
  • World War II's Biggest Troop Movement. This story chronicles the largest movement of troops in US history during June and July 1942.
    "World War II's Biggest Troop Movement" by Bill Wall

  • Selected reading form the book "An Anthology of Steam Railroad Poetry" collected by Michael Gee from Canadian railroaders.
    "An Anthology of Steam Railroad Poetry" collected by Michael Gee from Canadian railroaders.

  • Fifty years ago, railroading was a little harder than today. Steam was plentiful but radios were not. CC Staley, an ex NYC engineer working out of Anderson, IN, tells about the time he was involved with a "drop". Not a single car, but a whole train!
    An Exciting "Drop" by CC Staley

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