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Daily Archive for April 5th, 2012

The Boilermaker Mandate

There was a time in America when a vast majority of the trains were powered by coal. The engines were rather simple, essentially giant steam engines with a boiler attached. The boiler was fed by regularly shoveling coal into them. The person on the train who shoveled the coal was known as a “boilermaker.’ Now […]

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