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  • West Coast Main Line/Definition
    A railroad system running from [[London, United Kingdom]] to [[Glasgow]]
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  • Named passenger trains of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway/Related Articles
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  • Aerotrain/Related Articles
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  • SD26/Related Articles
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  • Super C/Related Articles
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  • Central Pacific Railroad/Definition
    California-to-Utah portion of the first transcontinental railroad in North America.
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  • San Diego and Arizona Railway/Related Articles
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  • Troop sleeper/Related Articles
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  • San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway/Related Articles
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  • CF7/Related Articles
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  • Nickel Plate 765 Steam Engine/Definition
    ...ude>Steam locomotive engine which was part of the now defunct Nickel Plate Railroad.
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  • Lenawee County Railroad/Definition
    A short-line railroad that operated between 1977 and 1990 in Lenawee County, Michigan.
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  • Beep (SWBLW)/Related Articles
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  • Railroads in California/Related Articles
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  • Railroads in California/Further Reading
    ...05|title=Riding the Transcontinental Rails: Overland Travel on the Pacific Railroad 1865-1881|publisher=Polyglot Press, Philadelphia, PA|id=ISBN 1411599934}} ...=Deverell, William|year=1994|title=Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad 1850–1910|publisher=University of California Press, Los Angeles, CA|i
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  • Diamond Jim Brady/Definition
    Late 19th-century American railroad equipment salesman and bon vivant, famous for his enormous appetite.
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  • Tom Thumb (locomotive)/Definition
    ...in 1830 by American inventor [[Peter Cooper]] for the [[Baltimore and Ohio Railroad]].
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  • Staple Bend Tunnel/Definition
    The first [[railroad]] tunnel in the [[United States of America]].
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  • San Diego Electric Railway/Related Articles
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  • David Levy Yulee/External Links
    ...ipsio.com/~yulee/history.html About David Levy Yulee's role in the Florida Railroad]
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  • Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad/Related Articles
    Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad]]. Needs checking by a human. {{r|Allegheny Portage Railroad}}
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  • California Limited/Related Articles
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  • Santa Fe de-Luxe/Related Articles
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  • Super Chief/Related Articles
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  • Grand Canyon Limited/Related Articles
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  • Valley Flyer/Related Articles
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  • San Diegan/Related Articles
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  • El Capitan/Related Articles
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  • Golden Gate/Related Articles
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  • Overland Limited/Related Articles
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  • Chief/Related Articles
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  • Railroads in California/External Links
    *[http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/railroad.htm ''Guide to Railroad History''] web links to primary and scholarly sources
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  • Railways of the United Kingdom/Definition
    The modern and historic [[railroad|rail]] transportation system of the [[United Kingdom]]
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  • John B. Corliss/Definition
    ...51-1929) was a Detroit, Michigan, lawyer, member of Congress, and electric railroad promoter.
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  • Refrigerator car/Definition
    <noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude>A piece of railroad rolling stock outfitted with cooling apparatus and designed to carry perish
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  • Train (transport)
    ...m locomotive.jpg|right|350px|A [[steam locomotive]] of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]], [[United States of America|USA]].}} ...t commonly run on wheels on each of the units which roll on the track or [[railroad]]. Early trains were powered by [[steam locomotive]]s, but today most trai
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  • David Levy Yulee
    ...ng through the swamps and pine forests from the ocean to the gulf. Yulee’s railroad opened up the center of the state and planted new towns in the wilderness.
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  • Juniata Division Canal
    ...pleted in 1832, it was sold to the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] in 1857. The railroad continued to operate it until 1872. ==Ownership by the Railroad==
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  • Eastern Division Canal
    ...]. It was sold along with the rest of the Main Line to the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] in 1857, which operated the canal until about 1901. ...ther to the east, down to Columbia, and meet the Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad.<ref name="Amazing">William H. Shank, P.E. (2001) ''The Amazing Pennsylvani
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  • Pennsylvania Main Line of Public Works/Related Articles
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  • Lenawee County Railroad/Bibliography
    ...?id=3i6K_Nf9e2EC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA15#v=onepage&q&f=false Adrian and Blissfield Railroad Co.]," 15-16. ''American Shortline Railway Guide''. 5th ed. Milwaukee: K
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  • Lenawee County Railroad
    ...nty Railroad Company''' (AAR reporting mark '''LCRC''') was a short-line [[railroad]] that operated between 1977 and 1990 in Lenawee County, [[Michigan (U.S. s ...ated the lines as essential to the local economy, it in turn purchased the railroad. The state contracted with private companies to operate the line until the
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  • David Levy Yulee/Definition
    ...d States senator from Florida who was the driving force behind the Florida Railroad, the state’s first trans-state line.
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  • Bridge (civil engineering)/Definition
    A structure to take a road, railroad, footpath, conveyer belt, or other structure over an unpassable obstacle, s
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  • Troop sleeper/Definition
    <noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude>A railroad passenger car that had been constructed specifically to serve as a "mobile
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  • San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway/Definition
    Short line, standard gauge American railroad founded in 1933 by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company as a direct
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  • Railway switch/Definition
    Since [[railroad]]s use pairs of parallel rails, special sections of track are required to b
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  • Western Division Canal
    ...us of the Main Line. Completed in 1831, it was sold to the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] in 1857. ==Ownership by the Railroad==
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  • San Diego and Arizona Railway/Bibliography
    ...utsch, Reena|year=2011|title=San Diego and Arizona Railway: The Impossible Railroad|publisher=Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC|id=ISBN 978-0-7385-8148-8}} ...uthor=Hanft, Robert M.|year=1984|title=San Diego & Arizona: The Impossible Railroad|publisher=Trans-Anglo Books, Glendale, CA|id=ISBN 0-87046-071-4}}
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  • Nyala/Definition
    ...[[Darfur]], near the border with [[Chad]]; Sudanese terminus of the unsafe railroad that continues into Chad; linked by dirt road to [[El Fasher]]; much more l
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  • Port Sudan/Definition
    [[Red Sea]] port of [[Sudan]], reached by modern highway and railroad cut through rugged territory to [[Khartoum]]; landing of major undersea [[f
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  • Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad
    ...[[Pennsylvania Main Line of Public Works]]. It consisted of 82 miles of [[railroad|rail]] from Vine and Broad Streets in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadel ...on the same kind of sandstone sleeper stones used by the Allegheny Portage Railroad.
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  • Gustavus Franklin Swift/Definition
    ...lude>An American entrepreneur, developer of the first practical ice-cooled railroad car and founder of a meat-packing empire in the Midwest during the late 19t
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  • Overland Limited/Bibliography
    * {{cite book|author=Duke, Donald|year=1995|title=Santa Fe: The Railroad Gateway to the American West, Volume One|publisher=Golden West Books, San M
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  • Chinese-American cuisine/Definition
    ...nton]]/[[Guangzhou]] style home cooking prepared not by skilled chefs, but railroad workers and other laborers; some dishes, such as [[chop suey]], first appea
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  • Kwangtung Leasehold
    ...ad Line, owned by a Japanese corporation, terminated in the Leasehold; the railroad provided cover for Japanese intelligence and covert action throughout Manch
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  • Central Pacific Railroad/Bibliography
    ...E. ''Nothing Like It In The World; The men who built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869. '' (2000) ISBN 0-684-84609-8 * Bain, David Haward. ''Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad'' (2000)
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  • Hollow/Definition
    ...en featuring a creek in the lowest space often with a roadway or trail and railroad tracks.
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  • Nassau Electric Railroad
    ...refers to the older name for [[Long Island]] which was Nassau Island. The railroad was incorporated on March 13, 1893, by [[Patrick H. Flynn]] and became know ...titors, the Atlantic Avenue Railroad, and the Brooklyn, Bath, and West End Railroad.
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  • Aerotrain/Gallery
    ...train'' passenger cars and locomotive No. 2 sit in storage at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay in August, 1970, prior to restoration. ...credit}}<br />One of the two [[Disneyland Railroad|Santa Fe and Disneyland Railroad's]] ''[[Viewliner]]'' trains prepares to depart the ''Tomorrowland'' statio
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  • Traveler/Definition
    ...different methods of [[transportation]] such as [[ship]], [[airplane]], [[railroad]], [[balloon]], or [[spaceship]]. In Britain, it's spelled '''traveller''';
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  • Hepburn Act
    ...al records, a task simplified by standardized bookkeeping systems. For any railroad that resisted, the ICC's conditions would remain in effect until the outcom ...Act was a subset of one of President [[Theodore Roosevelt]]'s major goals: railroad regulation.
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  • South Manchurian Railway Company/Definition
    <noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude>At first a Japanese-owned [[railroad]] with a terminus in the [[Kwangtung Leasehold]], eventually a diversified
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  • Dining car/Bibliography
    ...992|title=The Harvey House Cookbook: Memories of Dining along the Santa Fe Railroad|publisher=Longstreet Press, Atlanta, GA|id=ISBN 1-56352-357-4}} ...3|title=Dining by Rail: The History and Recipes of America's Golden Age of Railroad Cuisine|publisher=St. Martin's Press, New York, NY|id=ISBN 0-312-18711-4}}
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  • Western Division Canal/Definition
    ...ennsylvania Main Line of Public Works which ran from the Allegheny Portage Railroad in the east into Pittsburgh, the western terminus of the Main Line.
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  • Nickel Plate Road
    ...Chicago, Illinois, and paralleled [[William H. Vanderbilt]]'s [[Lake Shore Railroad]] for the entire length of its route. Thus it has been suggested that the ...that Bellevue paid so much for the privilege that one would think the new railroad was Nickel Plated. Other stories reference the quality of construction of
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  • Overland Limited
    ...tern Railway]], the [[Southern Pacific Railroad]], and the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] also bore the moniker ''Overland Limited''.
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  • Beep (SWBLW)/External Links
    * [http://www.barstowrailmuseum.org/ Western America Railroad Museum] official web site
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  • Railways of the United Kingdom
    ...the passenger and freight transportations. As opposed to what are called [[railroad]]s in American English, they have stayed active and efficient, and indeed o
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  • Juniata Division Canal/Definition
    ...127 miles to the west to Hollidaysburg, where it met the Allegheny Portage Railroad.
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  • J. Gregory Smith/Bibliography
    [http://vermonthistory.org/documents/findaid/vtcentrl.pdf Vermont Central Railroad Records, 1849-1880], Leahy Library, [http://vermonthistory.org/research/lea Lubetkin, M. John. ''Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873.'' Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
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  • El Capitan/Bibliography
    * {{cite book|author=Duke, Donald|year=1997|title=Santa Fe...The Railroad Gateway to the American West, Volume 2|publisher=Golden West Books, San Mar ...uthor=Schafer, Mike & Joe Welsh|year=2002|title=Streamliners: History of a Railroad Icon|publisher=MBI Publishing Company, St. Paul, MN|id=ISBN 0-7603-1371-7}}
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  • Train (transport)/Gallery
    |Alaska Railroad Locomotive.jpg|Alaska Railroad Locomotive
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  • San Diego and Arizona Railway/External Links
    ...iegohistory.org/journal/94fall/carriso.htm "Formidable Places: Building a Railroad in Carriso Gorge"] details some of the history of the SD&A that appeared in
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  • Siberia
    ...region's population density is low. Transportation is largely by river or railroad.
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  • Staple Bend Tunnel
    ...the [[United States of America]]. Constructed for the [[Allegheny Portage Railroad]] section of the [[Pennsylvania Main Line of Public Works]], it is located ...Appleton, who were contracted for both the tunnel and for Section 7 of the Railroad on May 25, 1831. Construction began on April 12, 1831, with [[Samuel Jones
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  • Railroads in California/Bibliography
    ...award|year=1999|title=Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad|publisher=Viking Press, New York, NY|id=ISBN 0-670-80889-X}} ...hor=Daniels, Rudolph|year=2000|title=Across the Continent: North American Railroad History|publisher=Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN|id=ISBN 0-253-2
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  • Phu Tho Province
    ...the south. It is on the Hanoi-Lao Cai railroad, which connects to the main railroad system.
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  • Horace Greeley/External Links
    ...cisco in the Summer of 1859''] (1860). Book advocating a Transcontinental Railroad
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  • Gadsden Purchase/Bibliography
    ...The 1854 Gadsden Purchase and the Building of the Second Transcontinental Railroad Across Arizona and New Mexico Twenty-Five Years Later'' (2004) 283 pp. popu ...lture'' 2001 35(2): 161-169. Issn: 0022-3840 Fulltext: [[Ebsco]], stresses railroad speculation and corruption themes
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  • Ann Arbor Railroad
    ...7802.jpg|thumb|right|350px|{{Ann Arbor No 7802.jpg/credit}}<br />Ann Arbor Railroad No. 7802 in May 2012, the last unit to bear the road's classic orange liver ...lroad''' (AAR reporting mark '''AA''') is a regional (Class III) shortline railroad operating mostly in Michigan. It is the remnant of a 260 mile line that inc
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  • Bad Day at Black Rock/Related Articles
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  • Eastern Division Canal/Definition
    ...Columbia in the east, where it connected to the Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad, to Duncan's Island in the west, where it met the Juniata Division and the
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  • Isambard Kingdom Brunel/Related Articles
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  • Super Chief/Gallery
    ...t}}<br />Santa Fe #2, an EMD E1 locomotive is featured on the cover of the railroad's 1946 promotional publication [http://www.titchenal.com/atsf/ayw1946/ "Alo
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  • Gadsden Purchase/Related Articles
    {{r|Southern Pacific Railroad}}
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  • Super C/Gallery
    ...''Super C'' consists. #95 (seen here in July, 2003 at the Western America Railroad Museum in Barstow, California) began life in December, 1967 as Santa Fe #10 ...he home signal at the crossing with the [[Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad]]) is dropping from a high green to red.</ref>
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  • Train (transport)/Related Articles
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  • Tram/Related Articles
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  • CF7/Bibliography
    ...uke, Donald |authorlink=Donald Norman Duke |year=1997|title=Santa Fe: The Railroad Gateway to the American West, Volume Two|publisher=[[Golden West Books]] |l ...year=1997|title=CF7 Locomotives: From Cleburne to Everywhere|publisher=The Railroad Press, Hanover, PA|isbn=0-9657709-0-7}}
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  • Railways of the United Kingdom/Related Articles
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  • Averell Harriman/Related Articles
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  • Allegheny Portage Railroad
    ...als without the inclines. Even that was outstripped by the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]], which roared past it and consigned the system to history. [[Image:Portage Railroad 1839.jpg|thumb|right|300px|{{Portage Railroad 1839.jpg/credit}}<br />Head of Plane No. 6 in Cresson, [[Pennsylvania (U.S.
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  • Super Chief/Bibliography
    * {{cite book|author=Duke, Donald|year=1997|title=Santa Fe...The Railroad Gateway to the American West, Volume 2|publisher=Golden West Books, San Mar ...992|title=The Harvey House Cookbook: Memories of Dining along the Santa Fe Railroad|publisher=Longstreet Press, Atlanta, GA|id=ISBN 1-56352-357-4}}
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  • Rail transport/Gallery
    |Alaska Railroad Locomotive.jpg|Alaska Railroad Locomotive
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  • Refrigerator car/External Links
    * [http://www.csrmf.org/events-exhibits/railroad-car-favorites/fruit-growers-express-company-refrigerator-car-no-35832 Fruit ...a wooden ice-type "reefer" on display at the [http://www.irm.org/ Illinois Railroad Museum].
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