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Laying track

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Track crew in late 1940s construct a railroad to haul coal from a new mine. Here, workers adjust the track, at right, while general foreman Buck Lancaster, at center with hat, inspects their work.
The new line was a joint project of the New York Central and Chesapeake & Ohio railroads.
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