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Month: December 2024

Posted on December 20, 2024December 23, 2024

Something Old, Something New – Twice

Railroading was a mature industry that was showing signs of age-fatigue by 1930. The economic disaster of the Great Depression hit all carriers with a special whammy, more so to marginal carriers that lived day-to-day even in the lush times of 1920s prosperity.  The precipitous drop in revenue was intensified by new competition in the …

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