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Unloading a Pacemaker boxcar

By Angela Cotey | March 28, 2022

| Last updated on August 8, 2025

A forklift exits one of the New York Central’s distinctive Pacemaker service boxcars at one of the railroad’s freight stations in the late 1940s.
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