Railroad Rx
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For close to a century,
workers
on the Wabash had enviable access to on-line
hospitals.
By H. Roger Grant
Hospital on Wheels
A 1905 account of Southern Pacific’s
hospital car.
Bucking
the Trend
Employee associations
persist in a world of for-profit medicine.
By
Mark Reutter
Dark
Genius
Railroad publisher
and writer
Zerah Colburn lost everything
and
died in disgrace.
By John Mortimer
Baltimore’s Belt
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All about the railroad that burrowed
under Baltimore and proved the practicality of
main-line electric traction.
By J. Lawrence
Lee
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Orphans
on the Waterfront
Pigmy electrics plied their
trade on the narrow
streets
of East Baltimore.
By Herbert
H. Harwood Jr.
First
Class for Fish
From shad eggs to 60-pound
sharks, fish traveled in cars
designed for
their safety
and comfort.
By William
D. Middleton
Picturing
the Railway
How woodcuts, engravings,
lithographs, and printers’
trains spread the
image of
early railways to the masses.
By
Alan M. Levitt
Salvaging
History
Recovering an important
tranche
of railroad records
took organization, time,
and elbow grease.
By Christopher T. Baer
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