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Freight Cars Run Wild in Southern Oregon

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The regular northbound Southern Pacific passenger train had left the Ashland, Ore., depot at 4 o’clock the morning of June 10, 1902. A few minutes later, dispatcher Pengre [pen-gray] watched in horror as a large flatcar of gravel flew by his window--a run

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Alice Mullaly