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Workers unloading rail sections from flat car, Western Avenue rail yards, Chicago, 1948

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Eight members of a section gang, four standing on a flat bed railroad car, four on the ground, loading sections of rail onto a flat-bed car.Photograph titles supplied from Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Granger project scrapbook captions.; Selected photographs published in Granger country : a pictorial social history of the Burlington Railroad / edited by Lloyd Lewis and Stanley Pargellis. Boston : Little, Brown, 1949.
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Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949Pargellis, Stanley McCrory, 1898Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company
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