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Southern ballast-cleaning train

By Angela Cotey | October 20, 2022

Southern Railway GP7 129 heads a ballast-cleaning train in operation on the “Rathole Division” near Dry Ridge, Ky., in July 1971.
William J. Husa Jr. photo

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