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Snowshed crews on the Central Pacific, battling blizzards and snowslides, built “the longest house in the world”

The iron horses that built America are nearly all gathered on the other side of Jordan

It was the way they worked the cord and changed the steam pressure that made the whistle almost seem to talk.

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