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Freight car congress

By Brian Schmidt | February 26, 2024

The roofs of several freight cars are seen in a black-and-white photo of a rail yard — Freight cars are seen in the Minneapolis & St. Louis’s Cedar Lake Yard in Minneapolis, Minn., in an undated photo. If wood running boards, like the one on Seaboard Air Line no. 18303 at front right, were left unpainted, it probably wasn’t for reasons of traction. Charles B. McCreary photo from the Trains Magazine collection

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