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Posted by ntrainride on Sat Feb 25 08:54:30 2017 drastic reductions!imagine the turmoil if something like this happened nowadays. if, say, a dozen interstates were closed. hooo boy. Found on Brooklyn Public Library powered by Newspapers.com |
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Posted by Dyre Dan on Sat Feb 25 13:23:35 2017, in response to more trains come off!, posted by ntrainride on Sat Feb 25 08:54:30 2017. The war was over by 1946. So why was there an Office of Defense Transportation telling the railroads, or anyone, how much coal they could or couldn't burn? (This certainly wasn't about saving the environment by not burning coal.) |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat Feb 25 13:44:00 2017, in response to Re: more trains come off!, posted by Dyre Dan on Sat Feb 25 13:23:35 2017. managing shortages. |
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Posted by Alan Follett on Sat Feb 25 14:16:53 2017, in response to Re: more trains come off!, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat Feb 25 13:44:00 2017. As I noted above, the shortages were due to a nationwide coal strike.Alan Follett Hercules, CA |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat Feb 25 16:42:26 2017, in response to Re: more trains come off!, posted by Alan Follett on Sat Feb 25 14:16:53 2017. indeed. part of the chain of events leading my Chicago grandfather to switch to natural gas from ComEd. |
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